Nine takeaways from cybersecurity reports:
- A Bitglass study found healthcare data breaches were up 55.1 percent in 2020 from 2019.
- The cost per healthcare record breached was $429 in 2020, according to the Bitglass study.
- It took healthcare firms on average 236 days to recover from a breach, the Bitglass report said.
- A Crowdstrike report found that 104 healthcare organizations were targeted by 18 ransomware organizations.
- Ransomware is the top cyberattack threat to hospitals, with ransomware group Sodinokibi profiting conservatively $123 million in 2020, an IBM report found.
- A Frost Radar report found more than 90 percent of healthcare organizations reported at least one breach in the last three years.
- Most hospitals spend around 64 percent more on advertising in the year following a data breach, according to Frost Radar.
- Twenty percent of Americans had a healthcare provider affected by a cyberattack in the last 12 months, Morphisec reported.
- Twenty-seven percent of consumers said if their data was exposed from a cyberattack on their healthcare provider, they would consider switching to a new provider, according to Morphisec.
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