In recent years, the healthcare industry has been a big target for cyber-hackers, and there have been some huge cases reported. The healthcare industry leads the way in terms of the highest number of breaches and leaks in the U.K. and in other countries too, and in one example we\u2019ll take a look at here, a hospital suffered a medical data breach that reportedly affected some 30,000 patients.<\/p>\n
A medical breach involving 30,000 patients is absolutely monumental!
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On 15 August 2016, the Integrity Transitional Hospital in Texas reported ‘abnormal activity<\/strong>‘ on a database. A forensics firm looked into the matter and found that cyber-hackers had managed to get access to the database, potentially seeing the Hospital patients’ test results, health insurance data and driver’s licence information.<\/p>\n After the data breach, the Hospital released a statement to reassure their patients that: <\/p>\n “Integrity [Hospital] is committed to the security of the sensitive information it maintains and is taking this matter very seriously. To help prevent a similar incident from reoccurring, we are enhancing existing security on our systems related to the laboratory information we maintain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As is often the case, though, the damage has already been done. Why didn’t the Hospital have adequate security protections in place beforehand?<\/p>\nActions taken by Integrity Hospital<\/h3>\n