CPO Magazine February 26, 2021
Scott Ikeda

Given that health records have become a very valuable commodity, the industry has established issues with lax security, and the coronavirus has created a slew of new opportunities due to the rise in telemedicine, it’s not a surprise that there has been a significant increase in healthcare cyber attacks. The numbers revealed by a new Bitglass study are nevertheless eye-popping; an increase of over 55% in 2020, with an estimated impact to the protected health information (PHI) of some 26 million people in the United States.

Opportunistic hackers increasingly see medical records as flexible all-in-one identity theft packages and scam toolkits. This has turned attacks on healthcare providers into a $13.2 billion industry, with the average data breach cost per...

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