Healthcare facilities targeted by cybercriminals

SENSITIVE DATA INCLUDED IN THE PRICE

Data from Critical Insight show that in the United States alone, in 2021, the personal data of 45 million patients was stolen. For comparison, a year earlier it was 34 million and in 2018 14 million. The problem is also present in Poland. According to the information collected by CERT Polska, the team at the National Research Institute of NASK, analyzing security incidents, throughout 2019, 53 cybersecurity incidents concerning the healthcare sector were registered in Poland, over 90 of them were recorded by the end of the third quarter of 2020.

Healthcare facilities keep sensitive and extremely valuable data. ...