Survey respondents identified the following as the most common motivations behind a cyberattack or other intentional breach of patients’ protected health information. Top responses included:
- Hospital employees snooping: 80 percent
- Financial identity theft: 67 percent
- Medical identity theft: 51 percent
- Outsourced personnel snooping: 23 percent
- Cyberterrorism: 16 percent
- Black market activities: 11 percent
- Intellectual property theft: 8 percent
- Business espionage: 4 percent
- Other: 2 percent
Survey results were based on responses from 283 health IT or information security leaders from hospitals and health systems around the country.
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