According to the 2016 Healthcare Breach Report from cloud access specialist Bitglass, more than 111 million individuals' data was lost due to hacking or IT incidents in the US alone.

What does that mean? "The 80 percent increase in data breach hacks in 2015 makes it clear that hackers are targeting healthcare with large-scale attacks affecting one in three Americans," said Nat Kausik, CEO, Bitglass.

The reason for the uptick is the sensitive information the hackers can acquire. These health care attacks give access for the hackers to victims social security numbers, medical record data, and date of birth. This is valuable info that can be resold for all kinds of nefarious thefts.

Victims have little recourse when subjected to identity theft via Personal HealthCare leaks, and many are not promptly informed by providers that their data has been compromised. This info can be used for identity theft or the hackers can use it to access medical care in the victim's name or to conduct corporate extortion.

Source: BetaNews