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The latest in news is the Cyber-attack on five servers of AIIMS (All India Medical Institute) reported by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
The CERT-In evaluated the incident. “As per preliminary analysis, servers
were compromised in the information technology network of AIIMS by
unknown threat actors due to improper network segmentation, which caused
operational disruption due to non-functionality of critical applications,” said
the minister of electronics and information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
He added that “CERT-In and other stakeholder entities have advised necessary
remedial measures.”
The five servers that were affected by the cyber-attack in addition 1.3 terabytes
of data were encrypted. This is a huge amount of data when it comes to patient’s
data and other information relating to healthcare.
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Healthcare Data Goldmine for Hackers
Medical institutes and hospitals store an incredible amount of patient data every
day. This includes their personal information both health data and financial data
in form of transactions patients make.
These confidential data is worth’s lot of money to hackers who can sell it quickly
and benefit making the health care industry a growing target.
It becomes utmost important to protect healthcare organizations have to protect
their patients’ records. Allocating separate team and increasing budget to handle
patient’s data with utmost security is one of the key responsibilities of any
healthcare or medical organization.
Cybercriminals are always on tender hooks to attack targeted vulnerable systems,
WIFI networks including remote desktop protocol (RDP), vulnerable server message
blocks (SMB) and database services.
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The cyber peace foundation research showed that in the year 2022, nearly 1.9
million cyberattacks against the healthcare industry in India were recorded
between January to November.
As per HIPAA journal on healthcare data breach statistics, hacking is now
the leading cause of healthcare data breaches. Right way of implementing
HIPAA and creating more security awareness training, using advance
technologies for monitoring access to medical records can reduce data
breaches in healthcare organizations..