Why You Want White Hat Hackers To Break Into Your Medical Data

In old western movies, it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad. You just had to check out their hats. Black hat meant bad guy. White hat meant good guy.

In a much more metaphorical way, the same is true for hackers. A black hat hacker is a criminal who breaks into networks to steal data for their own use or to sell to other criminals. A white hat hacker (also known as an ethical hacker) is doing the same thing, but with a very different intent.