Why 2015 could be the year of the healthcare hack

Two years ago, credit card companies were getting hacked. Last year, it was major retailers like Target. But 2015, said Srinivas Mukkamala of cybersecurity firm RiskSense Inc., will be the year that health care companies get hacked. "It's not the health care providers they're after, it's the third party processors," he said, or the companies that hold personally-identifiable data. He said many in the cybersecurity world watched as Anthem Inc. was hacked earlier this year, and 80 million medical records were compromised. He expects many more health care firms to be targeted this year, too, as hackers discover the troves of information buried in hospital, insurance and health plan computers.