Hack attacks on hospitals jump 600% this year: CEO

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102030232

By Cadie Thompson
@CadieThompson
CNBC.com
Sept 25, 2014

Hacking medical data has become a booming business, and attacks against 
hospitals are up 600 percent in 2014, a security company CEO told CNBC.

The increase in data-sharing, and the growth of the Internet of everything 
may be good for medicine, but it's creating a security nightmare for the 
health-care industry, said John McCormack, chief executive of Websense.

"Medical information is incredibly valuable, it's where the money is at," 
he said. "There's been a huge spike in hospital attacks."

One credit card number costs mere pennies on the black market, but one 
medical record can be worth about $100, making it a much more appealing 
target, he said.

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