81% of healthcare organizations have been breached in past two years

Fully 81 percent of healthcare executives say their organizations have been compromised by malware, botnets or cyber attacks at least once in the past two years, according to the findings of the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey. The survey of 223 chief information officers, chief technology officers, chief security officers and chief compliance officers at healthcare providers and health plans also found that 13 percent of respondents said they're targeted by external hack attempts about once a day, and another 12 percent are seeing about two or more such attacks a week.