Healthcare data is now more valuable to cybercriminals than credit card details

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.

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