Abbott Laboratories moved to protect patients with its St Jude heart implants against possible cyberattacks, releasing a software patch on Jan 9 that the firm said will reduce the "extremely low" chance of them being hacked.
The company disclosed the moves some five months after the US government launched a probe into claims the devices were vulnerable to potentially life-threatening hacks that could cause implanted devices to pace at potentially dangerous rates or cause them to fail by draining their batteries.
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