Cybercriminals attacked the healthcare industry at a greater amount than any other sector in the year 2015, and more than 100 million healthcare records were compromised previous year, in accordance to a new report published by IBM.
In fact, the year 2015 was “the year of the healthcare breach,” IBM stated in its 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index.
The rate of attacks against the healthcare sector climbed to the largest level of all industries studied in the year 2015, after not making the top five in the year 2014, as healthcare leaped ahead of the manufacturing, financial services, government and transportation industries.
Data breaches in the healthcare sector are also getting greater – with five of the eight largest health data breaches reported since the year 2010 (those with more than 1 million records compromised) occurring in the first 6 months of the year 2015, IBM’s report said.
And the cost of data breaches is going up, specifically in healthcare, in accordance IBM’s 2015 Cost of a Data Breach study.
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