Who gathered the data? American Medical Association, IBM, Ponemon Assoc., American Dental Assoc.
What does the data say?
- 3 Alabama hospitals operating under emergency procedures since a cyberattack on Oct. 1
- Healthcare has the highest cost per record hacked
- More than $400 per consumer record cost to healthcare providers
Reasons healthcare data is sought by hackers?
- sold for insurance-fraud purposes
- used for extortion purposes against affected health organizations
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