There were a record number of cyberbreaches last year, and many of them were in health care and related organizations. According to a new study:
- Employees were responsible for 39% of health care breaches last year, compared to 18% across all industries.
- Most breaches were the result of miscellaneous errors, as opposed to malicious misuse incidents.
- Data misdelivery (such as sending an email to the wrong person) is the most common employee error in this sector.
- Attacks against a web-facing application account for about a third of breaches, even though human error remains a big problem.
- Nearly 60% of data breaches in health care organizations involve personal data, while 46% is related to medical information.