Five other findings from the Ipsos report and cybersecurity company Critical Insight:
- Large hospitals reported that a cyberattack creates a shutdown time of 6.2 hours that costs on average $21,500 per hour.
- Midsize hospitals are suffering about twice as much as large hospitals, with an average shutdown time of 10 hours that costs $45,700 per hour according to the Ipsos report.
- About 5 percent of attacks are motivated by fun. The motive for 91 percent of hackers is financially driven. Another 4 percent of attacks are motivated by espionage, according to Critical Insight.
- Forty-nine percent of the 130 respondents to the Ipsos report said their annual compliance budget for cybersecurity wasn’t sufficient.
- Healthcare cyberattacks have increased by 84 percent from 2018 to 2021, affecting 45 million individuals in 2021, according to Critical Insight.
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