This has been a lousy year for healthcare data security — so bad a year that IBM has dubbed 2015 “The Year of The Healthcare Security Breach.” In a recent report, Big Blue noted that nearly 100 million records were compromised during the first 10 months of this year.
Part of the reason for the growth in healthcare data breaches seems to be due to the growing value of Protected Health Information. PHI is worth 10x as much as credit card information these days, according to some estimates. It’s hardly surprising that cyber criminals are eager to rob PHI databases.
