3 Reasons Hackers Target Health Care Data.

What type of healthcare data? Medical records and wearable data from heart monitors to implanted devices to fitbits

What is crucial about protecting health care data? It must be protected as the information moves from device to cloud storage to medical records end point at a physician or hospital

What makes health records more valuable? 

• Unlike financial information, health data or changes to social security numbers are not quickly identifiable
• The release of health records includes social stigma that isn’t tied to financial records.
• Health records are personal and private, therefore the release is stigmatizing. 

Data Informed | Why Hackers Attack Healthcare Data, and How to Protect It