Exposed medical data can cost healthcare companies millions of dollars in fines, civil actions, credit monitoring, ID theft, and lost business from current and future customers. In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.5 million in fines for multiple violations that jeopardized electronic health records of more than 4 million patients. In light of the Spring 2017 WannaCry assault that shuttered large portions of the UKs National Health Service, IT security professionals have awoken to Internet-borne cyber threats such as phishing.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3215268/the-new-pandemic-healthcare-data-breaches.html