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DATA BREACHES IN HEALTHCARE ARE GOING UP, UP, UP
Cyberattacks and social engineering continue to top the list An industry under attack
Ripe with rich nancial, personal, and medical information, healthcare nds itself a prime target for cyberattacks.
90%of all healthcare organizations surveyed
su ered an attack in the past 2 years.1
320%increase in malicious attacks in healthcare
NotPetya
malware attack, June 2017
70,000 employees from a major pharmaceutical company had to immediately cease all interactions with company networks, refrain from turning on or rebooting any company devices, and avoid using thumb drives as a result of the attack.3
What does this mean for interoperability between small and large providers as data is shared between networks that may not be as well protected as others?
ATTACKS HAVE GONE GLOBAL
WannaCry
ransomware attack, May 2017
16 major hospitals shut down across the UK, putting patient data at risk, and resulting in cancellation of non- urgent services and procedures. The same attack infected over 200,000 computers across 150 countries.4
DDoS attack
largest on record, not directly a ecting healthcare, but brought down site giants like Twitter, Reddit, and Spotify, October 2016
The consequences of a data breach in healthcare go beyond identity theft—compromised data can put a patient at risk, incur costly nes, harm a provider’s reputation, and hinder organizational e ciency.
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