Why Smaller Healthcare Providers Remain Easy Targets

Small and mid-sized healthcare organizations continue to fall victim disproportionately to hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks and data thefts - affecting large populations of patients.

Why Smaller Healthcare Providers Remain Easy Targets. Small and mid-sized healthcare organizations continue to fall victim disproportionately to hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks and data thefts - affecting large populations of patients. See Also: Enterprise Browser Supporting Healthcare, Cyber Resilience Eight recently reported hacking incidents by smaller medical practices affected nearly 2 million individuals, with single breaches ranging from about 100,000 to nearly 600,000 individuals. The victims span a broad range of medical specialties and geographic regions. The victims include Coastal Carolina Health Care in North Carolina, with a hack affecting 110,304 individuals, to Erie Family Health Centers in Pennsylvania, with an incident affecting 570,000 patients, with an assortment of many other types of smaller organizat...