Carnegie Mellon: Web Hackers Profiting From Illegal Online Pharmacies

A new report from Carnegie Mellon University echoes the findings of the recent NABP report on online pharmacies. A growing number of illegal online pharmacies are flooding the Web trying to sell dangerous unauthorized prescriptions, according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at CMU.

A new report from Carnegie Mellon University echoes the findings of the recent NABP report on online pharmacies.  A growing number of illegal online pharmacies are flooding the Web trying to sell dangerous unauthorized prescriptions, according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at CMU. The report release took note of NABP’s Public Health Alert as further evidence of the growing problem. The growing number of fake internet pharmacies provides a global distribution channel for fake or tainted medicines, making it much easier for criminal drug rings to sell their ineffective and harmful products to unsuspecting American parents.  Currently, the United States has a closed system that has been effective in largely preventing counterfeiters from injecting their potential lethal medicine into our medicine supply.   Importation legislation could unintentionally compromise America’s safeguarded, tightly regulated medicine supply chain.