Security News > 2024 > May > Ransomware attacks impact 20% of sensitive data in healthcare orgs
The report estimates that one fifth of all sensitive data belonging to healthcare organizations is impacted in each ransomware attack.
A typical healthcare organization has more than 42 million sensitive data records - 50% more sensitive data than the global average of 28 million.
Sensitive data records in observed healthcare organizations grew by more than 63% in 2023 - far surpassing any other industry and more than five times the global average.
Ransomware attacks against observed healthcare organizations have an estimated impact of almost five times more sensitive data than the global average.
This equates to an estimated 20% of a typical healthcare organization's total sensitive data holdings impacted every time there is a successful ransomware encryption event, compared to 6% for an average organization.
Virtualization really matters for healthcare and ransomware: 97% of all encrypted data in Rubrik observed healthcare organizations last year occurred within virtualized architecture compared to 83% across all industries.
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