Cybersecurity experts say that we should be worrying a lot less about guarding our credit card information and focusing a lot more on protecting our health data.
In 2015, only 5.7 million retail records were compromised by hackers, compared to more than 100 million health records, according to recent studies.
What makes health records so valuable to hackers is the wealth of sensitive data that they include, such as social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers.
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