Health care organizations are prime targets for hackers, and events in the past year have shown the grave risk that hospitals and insurance companies face by not investing heavily in security measures.
According to a report from PBS, more than 113 million medical records were compromised last year, suggesting an enormous proportion of us have had sensitive information about our health exposed to hackers.
The comparatively low level of successful cyberattacks this year is good news… sort of. But 3.5 million records have nevertheless already been compromised, and the year is not half over.
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