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Healthcare data is now more valuable to cybercriminals than credit card details
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Fusion42 · 18 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Healthcare data now commands higher prices on criminal markets than credit card details because medical records are permanent, comprehensive, and enable multiple fraud types simultaneously. Ransomware groups use double-extortion tactics—encrypting systems while threatening to sell stolen patient data—and target EHR platform providers to breach hundreds of hospitals in a single attack.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cybersecurity, Digital Health and Healthtech Infrastructure.
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If you build healthcare software or run a hospital, your data just became a primary hostage—criminals now extract records before encrypting anything, then sell them separately. EHR platform founders are especially exposed: one breach of your code spreads to every customer hospital at once.
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