data_highway2As if data security wasn’t a big enough challenge, the latest headache for healthcare IT leaders: websites that offer hackers for hire. Healthcare data is the crème de la crème for cyber criminals as it far surpasses that of credit card data in terms of the quality of valuable information it offers about an individual. It’s no wonder hospital IT professionals are concerned about websites that advertise hackers for hire. To learn more, see this article in Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review.

Websites that allow people to hire hackers are popping up and gaining popularity, according to a recent report from The New York Times, and these hired hackers are a major concern for hospitals and health systems.

At a time when significant data breaches are occurring in the healthcare industry, such as the recent one at health insurer Anthem that involved hackers stealing the data of as many as 80 million of its current and former customers, there is a growing industry “of ordinary people hiring hackers,” according to the Times.

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