"Why does health care seem to be disproportionately the target of ransomware attacks, and what can be done about it?
To understand why somebody would attack healthcare organizations using ransomware as their strategy, you have to know what the motivation of the attacker is," wrote Tim Jarrett, Senior Director, Enterprise Security Strategy in an article in Health Leaders Media, Senior Director, Enterprise Security Strategy.
In addition, on April 14th, Becker's Healthcare IT and CIO Review reported: "There were 1,519,521 breached patient records in March, representing a 155 percent increase in the number of breached records in January (388,307) and February (206,151) combined."
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