Healthcare Remains a Ripe Target for Cybercriminals

As most everyone in healthcare will remember, health insurer Anthem suffered a data breach in 2015 that affected as many as 80 million patients. While healthcare did not witness a breach of that scale in 2016, numerous hospitals fell victim to ransomware attacks, and healthcare security budgets continued to lag behind those of other industries, according to Forrester Research.

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M.C. on March 8, 2017 at 7:06 pm

If they can get into the FBI database, they certainly can get patients sensible informations. we have to do more to protect the health informations of patients.

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