Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks on Health-Care Providers Are Up in Recent Months
- Health-data breaches can cost more than $400 per patient
- Only 33 percent of health departments have defenses for breach
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Health-care providers and government agencies across the U.S. have seen an increase in cybersecurity breaches in recent months, exposing sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of people as the sector scrambles to find adequate defense mechanisms.
“These threats are real,” Oscar Alleyne, senior adviser at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said Tuesday during a panel in Washington. The breaches include malware attacks, computer thefts, unauthorized network access and other security breaches, according to a government database that tracks attacks in the health-care sector.