Healthcare DIVE April 30, 2024
Emily Olsen

Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with an average of just 6% in other industries.

Dive Brief:

  • Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations compromise significantly more sensitive data compared with attacks on other industries, according to a report released Tuesday by Rubrik Zero Labs, the research arm of a cybersecurity firm.
  • Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are impacted — meaning files are encrypted, deleted or taken — in the event of a successful ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average company.
  • Healthcare companies hold an outsized amount of sensitive information relative to other industries, averaging 42 million sensitive...

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