The Ponemon report found data breaches cost the healthcare industry nearly $6.2 billion in the last two years, according to The Merkle.
Here are four points:
1. In the last two years, nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations encountered at least one data breach.
2. An average data breach costs nearly $2.2 million per hack.
3. Healthcare organizations are twice as likely as another industry to suffer a data breach.
4. Despite 20,000 vacant data security positions in the healthcare industry, many organizations cannot afford them.
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