A breach of patient privacy and confidentiality is a threat to health care information and poses risk to people’s lives. It may affect the care that the patients receive as well their lives. This threat can be
the health care industry loses $5.6 billion every year to data breaches. Additionally, they found that there was at least one health data breach per day in 2016 which affected more than 27 million patient records.
The healthcare sector isn’t sufficiently prepared for the recent surge in cyberattacks. Many healthcare organizations operate in outdated digital infrastructures that are easy to breach. Threat actors target these organizations to get medical records, transactions, or any other data they can sell or...
Furthermore, healthcare institutions actually store a huge amount of personal data. In an event of a data breach, thesepersonal and private data could be exposedto external parties and used for malicious gains. For example, with the SingHealth data breach that happened on ...
As the new year begins, the healthcare sector will undoubtedly continue to grapple with a significant volume of cybersecurity threats and challenges. The year 2023 sawrecord-breaking data breachfigures, with more than 540 organizations and 112 million individuals being implicated in healthcare ...
An ongoing cybersecurity breach that hit the health technology company Change Healthcare this week has led to prescription delays for at least a few small pharmacies in the U.S., with some interruptions reported by bigger institutions like Walgreens, according to the pharmacies. ...
The number of people affected by a March 2024 hack on a healthcare revenue cycle management and billing services provider has soared in recent weeks to more than 1.82 million, as the company continues to file updated breach reports to state and federal regulators. Healthcare State of Healthcar...
Implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy provides significant advantages for the healthcare sector: Protection of Patient Privacy:Ensuring the confidentiality of medical information is vital for maintaining trust in the healthcare system. A security breach can severely damage an organization’s rep...
HealthCare.gov Users Warn of Security Risk, Breach of Privacy
Perhaps no cybersecurity trend has been bigger in the last several years than the scourge of attacks related to the supply chain. Cyberincidents, such as the2023 MoveIt vulnerability, thebreach at software management vendor SolarWindsand theLog4jvulnerability in the open source world, put organizati...