A security researcher at the Black Hat conference, in Las Vegas notified that how easily the people can manage an insulin pump of diabetic patients.

Jerome Radcliffe was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 22 years old and recently he was working to find out that the insulin pump believed to keep his blood sugar levels safe could be hacked or not.

He has discovered that the dosage levels can be turned off and on by a simple device. He stated that the expensive insulin pumps disallowed him to go for a further research about their vulnerability due to the cost factor.

Radcliffe wears an insulin pump that has been managed by a remote to control insulin. He has exposed that the pump can be programmed with a strangers remote as well. "It would only take one person to do this to kill someone and then you have a catastrophe”, he said.

He said that it was not about hacking somebody’s credit cards but it was about the life of a diabetic patient which could be at risk.

However, Advanced Medical Technology Association Vice President Wanda Moebius stated that the risk for the diabetic patients of having their monitors hacked was very small and comparatively risk of not monitoring was quite high.