Healthcare data breaches cost the most of any industry by far, at $9.23 million per incident between May 2020 and March 2021 — a $2 million increase from the previous year, according to a report from IBM. The cost of data breaches overall is the highest it’s been in the 17-year history of the Cost of a Data Breach Report, at an average of $4.24 million per incident.
Nearly half (44 percent) of the breaches analyzed exposed consumers’ personal data, such as names, email addresses, passwords and even healthcare data — representing the most common type of breached record in the report.
The rapid…
Tips for Healthcare Organizations to Prevent and Respond to Data Breaches
