The expanding loopholes in cyber defenses put sensitive data at risk, exhilarating the degree of damage due to malicious cyberattacks. A recent study states that almost 230,000 malware samples are produced by hackers every day; this number will continue to...
Since years, cyberattacks have been targeting a specific industry – HEALTHCARE! As pointed out in our OAIC’s Quarterly Breach Statistics Report, healthcare experienced a dramatically higher number of cyber incidents with about 47 (19 percent) notifiable data breaches within the...
It was August 19, 2019. Landis Adams - the Economic Development Director of Keene, Texas, and other city employees showed up as usual at 8 AM. They turned on their computers and noticed a mess of text. Quickly, they figured...
In Part 1 of this article, we have seen healthcare data breaches expanding in both frequency and size, with the biggest one impacting as many as 20 million people. The motives behind all those cyberattacks are quite transparent: hospitals, health...
Healthcare data breaches happen now with an ever hefty price tag — an average mitigation cost of $6.45 million! According to a recent study on the data breach costs, organizations in the Healthcare domain were found to experience the costliest...