Social security number or credit card information? According to partner Lynn Sessions and associate Nita Garg of Baker Hostetler, medical information is the most valuable to hackers.
“Hackers have increased their focused attacks on the U.S. healthcare industry,” they said, relying on information from the Ponemon Institute citing a 20 percent increase in healthcare organizations reporting cyberattacks between 2009 and 2013. According to security experts, this increase stems from weak institutional security coupled with profitability of health records. “Unlike credit cards, which may be quickly canceled once fraudulent activity is detected, it often takes months or years before patients or providers discover the theft of medical information,” said Sessions and Garg.
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