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Your Electronic Medical Records Could Be Worth $1000 to Hackers

By Mariya Yao for Forbes How much is your life worth to hackers? On the black market, the going rate for your social security number is 10 cents. Your credit card number is worth 25 cents. But your electronic medical health record (EHR) could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars. EHRs offer significant…

Posted on:May 4, 2017
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Hacking Accounted for 98 Percent of Healthcare Data Breaches in 2015, Report Says

By Heather Landi for Healthcare Informatics While lost and theft of employee devices accounted for the majority (68 percent) of healthcare data breaches in 2014, last year was a different story, with 98 percent of breaches due to hacking and IT-related incidents, according to a Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report. The report cites a series of…

Posted on:Feb 4, 2016
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