Florida AG assiameator of Chinese medical devices on “compromise” products
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The Florida Republican Prosecutor General James Uthmeier brought legal action this week against a manufacturer of Chinese medical devices, accusing the company of selling “compromise” medical devices which would have a “stolen” that bad actors can manipulate.
Contec Medical Systems Co., LTD., a company of medical devices based in China with a sales branch which operates in Florida, was served for the assignments this week by the AG state office.
In a press release Announcing the legal action, Uthmeier has accused Content of potential risk of cybersecurity, including violations of the law of consumer protection of states, alleging that there is evidence that the company has produced systems for monitoring the health of patients in the United States for more than a decade, while concealing “serious security problems” linked to its products.
The patient’s monitoring system in question, the CMS800, was also accused of having exploited a “stolen door” by cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“The problems include an integrated” stolen door “which could allow the bad players to manipulate the data indicated on devices without the knowledge of the patient or supplier and the programming which automatically transmits the patient’s information to an IP address belonging to an university in China,” said the press release published by uthmeier. “These problems are particularly concern since the FBI has warned on previous occasions Pirates are targeting American health systems. Federal agencies have recommended that these monitors be disconnected or disabled. “
The Florida Attorney General, James Uthmeier, brought legal action against the manufacturer of Chinese medical devices, Contec for having allegedly sold devices compromised with a stolen door which transmits patient data in China. (Getty Images)
Among the concerns listed by Uthmeier were content efforts and those who distribute its products to represent the patient’s patient monitors approved by the FDA and other international standards, even if they have not been approved by the FDA, and they did not comply with the global standards that the company affirmed.
Uthmeier also accused one of the Contec distributors of his patient monitors, Epsimed, based in Miami, of hiding that they were selling content devices by counting them like their own.
“The land ownership of the CCP is bad, but it is (the tip) of the iceberg. Their industrial property properties are worse, just like their access to the port. Perhaps the worst of all is their deep penetration of critical infrastructures and government systems.”
Meanwhile, Uthmeier, which also published assignments to Epsimed, added that if Confec and Epsimed represented the patient’s monitoring system as having certain quality insurance around security and reliability, it “contained simultaneously stolen patient information and transmitted to China”.
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Jose Mena, CEO of Epsimed, confirmed the reception of the assignments of uthmeier and said that they cooperate “100%”.
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“We do not sell these monitors in the United States, our customers are in Latin America,” added Mena.
“Monitors are barely used with Internet connection,” he continued. “For the monitor to connect to the Internet and represent a threat, it requires a central surveillance system that we have never provided, which means that the monitors sold by Epsimed are currently used as an autonomous base (not connected to the Internet). Finally and above all, as soon as we immediately took knowledge in January.
Security experts have raised concerns about medical devices transmitting data to third parties. (istock)
The legal action of uthmeier, which is the first step in a continuous effort which could lead to damages, civil penalties or an injunction against companies, occurs a week after Chinese experts have sounded an alarm in the face of the growing capacity of Chinese companies to potentially help the CCP sabotage the United States of the interior. The warning follows a massive attack by Israel against Iranian nuclear and military sites that Israel has launched via a drone base that it had built on Iranian soil and weapons and soldiers systems that had been introduced in Iran.
Officials on both sides of the aisle have increasingly warned against growing land and assets of China in the United States, which could help them have a chance to burst between the two largest economic superpowers in the world.
The national flags of the United States and China float in Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China. (Wang Gang / VCG via Getty Images)
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“The United States must choose to become serious or lose a war,” said Michael Lucci, CEO and founder of State armorA conservative group whose mission is to develop and promulgate solutions at state level with global security threats, warned via His X account After the attacks of Israel.
“The land ownership of the CCP is bad, but it is the tip of the iceberg. Their industrial property properties are worse, just like their port access. Perhaps the worst of all is their deep penetration of critical infrastructure and government systems.”
Lucci added to the suite of news from the legal action of uthmeier that patients “must feel safe when they receive care, which does not fear that their medical devices refer their data to communist China”.
