From: HealthITSecurity
Author Name, Patrick Ouellette
Verizon released the findings of its “2014 Data Breach Investigations Report,” which reviewed and analyzed 10 years of data breach information and identified specific threat patterns.
Verizon used that data over the 10-year period to identify nine cross-industry patterns: miscellaneous errors such as sending an email to the wrong person; crimeware (various malware aimed at gaining control of systems); insider/privilege misuse; physical theft/loss; Web app attacks; denial of service attacks; cyber espionage; point-of-sale intrusions; and payment card skimmers. Specific to healthcare, there were 26 security incidents (6 small organizations, 1 large, and 19 were unknown).
Tony Maupin, Director of Verizon Security Sales Engineering and Cloud Services, said there’s been a shift in what hackers are going after.
Year after year, they’ve been going after the dollar sign, such as the credit card or the bank. But we’ve seen that dramatically change in that the focus is now more on information. The healthcare industry has a lot of information and we’ve seen a lot more attacks against the industry.
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