Healthcare DIVE February 19, 2025
Last year, the healthcare industry accounted for 23% of data breaches handled by financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, compared with 18% in 2023.
Dive Brief:
- Data breaches hit the healthcare sector more than other industries last year, according to a report published this week by financial and risk advisory firm Kroll.
- In 2024, the healthcare industry accounted for 23% of data breaches handled by the advisory, compared with just 18% in 2023.
- The sector was battered by cyberattacks last year — including the major incident at claims processor Change Healthcare — and the industry operated with “fairly immature” incident response practices, wrote Denyl Green, global head of breach notification at Kroll, in the report.
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