Healthcare enters new cybersecurity era as hacktivists, organized crime, foreign nationals take aim

Healthcare IT News: Organized criminals scoped their sights on healthcare somewhere around 2012 and found that stealing patient data enabled them to monetize that information in a number of ways. Since then attacks have grown increasingly sophisticated ever since. And attackers are launching attempts now than ever.

Perhaps coincidentally that’s also when the stream of lost unencrypted hardware began slowing down, said Kurt Long, CEO of application security specialist FairWarning.

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