Can pacemakers and medical devices be hacked?

November 12, 2018
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Putting lifesaving personal medical devices like pacemakers and drug infusion pumps online saves lives. Doctors can know almost instantly if something is going wrong with their patients. The problem is: all these wireless devices have huge vulnerabilities to hacking. How safe are we?