In early September, a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate in
upstate New York revealed that hackers had compromised 10.5 million patient and
business partner records in a data breach that had continued, undetected, for almost
two years. It wasn't the first health care industry breach of 2015, and it
probably won't be the last. It wasn't even the largest: back in January,
hackers hit Anthem, the nation's second largest health insurer, and stole as
many as 80 million people's records.
Medical records are a juicy prize on the black market,
selling for as much as $70 each, as Jim Trainor of the FBI Cybersecurity
Division told CBS News in February. NPR's "All Things Considered" even
reported recently that it found a "value pack" of ten Medicare
numbers selling for about $4,700. So if your company is in the business of
health care, you are almost certainly in a hacker's sights, and your data
security is due for an immediate check-up.
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