Healthcare Records vulnerable to Criminals |
Posted: April 23, 2014 |
Just about every kind of healthcare related entity—hospitals, rehab centers, pharma companies, insurance carriers and more—have been and continue to be compromised by cyber criminals. Though your doctor can boost your resistance to heart attack, the hospital he works at remains prone to hack attacks by crooks wanting access to all sorts of data and other sensitive information. This isn’t just a leak of patients’ personal health information, but the institutions’ billing systems and intellectual property get in the hands of crooks. Once the hackers are in, they’re in a position to launch more attacks on other networks and commit billions of dollars worth of fraudulent transactions. Here are some bitter pills to swallow:
This all means that patients are getting a big burden financially in that healthcare costs rise in response. For instance, the cost that was related to compromised medical insurance records and files in 2013 was $12 billion. This gets trickled down to patients. Many healthcare related organizations cannot adequately protect sensitive data; the cyber attacks are like a relentless virus, overtaking its host. Robert Siciliano is an Identity Theft Expert to AllClearID. He is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Identity Was Stolen See him knock’em dead in this identity theft prevention video. Disclosures.
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