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Cybersecurity professionals: The healthcare industry needs you

By TechRepublic  
   November 30, 2015

According to Gemalto's Data Breach Index for the first half of 2015, the healthcare industry has the dubious distinction of being the industry suffering the most data breaches (187 out of 888) and having the most stolen records (84.4 million out of 245.9 million).To add insult to injury, a company in the healthcare industry, Anthem Insurance, grabbed the top spot on Gemalto's magnitude scale, succumbing to an identity theft attack that exposed 78.8 million records. The Gemalto report mentions, "That attack represented one third of the total records exposed in the first half of 2015, and was highly publicized in part because it represented the first major state-sponsored cyber-attack of several that occurred in 2015."

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