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Analysis: 2016 Health Data Breaches, and What’s Ahead

January 5, 2017

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For the second year in a row, the vast majority of health data breach victims were affected by hacker attacks in 2016, and the trend shows no signs of abating. “Hacking is just getting rolling in healthcare, or probably more accurately, just beginning to be recognized more often,” says Mac McMillan, CEO of the security consulting firm CynergisTek.

Experts say the healthcare sector should be prepared to deal with more ransomware attacks as well as other types of extortion attempts in 2017, as well as an uptick in distributed denial-of-service assaults and security breaches involving internet of things devices.

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