HIT Consultant June 13, 2025
The impact of any data breach cannot be overstated, especially in healthcare. Unlike other sectors, such as financial services or travel, healthcare records contain “one of one” data – medical history cannot simply be replaced or revoked, making this data uniquely valuable to threat actors.
Unfortunately, healthcare has seen a clear surge in data breaches in recent years.
Financially motivated hackers and insider threats are increasingly exploiting cybersecurity gaps that were underscored during the COVID-19 pandemic to access sensitive data such as patient records and vaccine research. Healthcare data breaches grew from 519 in 2019 to 663 in 2020, and just last year, the healthcare industry experienced 725 data breaches, with each breach affecting 500 or more records –...
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