Every CISO knows that April, 2019 was a grim milestone: the worst month for healthcare data breaches
since 2010, when the Office for Civil Rights began reporting healthcare data breaches of 500 individuals
or more publicly. In April, 44 breaches were reported and the medical records of nearly 700,000 people
were compromised.
The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations' IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.
