Chief Healthcare Executive September 6, 2021
Ransomware attacks tend to increase around holiday weekends, like Labor Day weekend. Here is a look at some recent healthcare data breaches.
During holiday weekends, like Labor Day, there tends to be an increase in ransomware attacks, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned. The agencies noted that these attacks have increasingly been taking place during holiday weekends, such as Mother’s Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend, and the Fourth of July weekend.
From January 1 to July 31, 2021, there were 2,084 ransomware complaints, a 62% increase over the same time period a year earlier, and more than $16.8 million in losses, a 20% increase from the previous year.
In general, healthcare data breaches are on the...
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