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Recognizing the trends in healthcare data breach lawsuits

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Healthcare companies secure 50% more sensitive data compared to the global average

The Rubrik Zero Labs research unit found that the average healthcare organization possesses upwards of 42 million sensitive data records, 50% more than the global average of 28 million. Given this figure, Rubrik deduced that ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations can have significant negative impacts on operations and data security and integrity.

In fact, Rubrik researchers found that ransomware attacks against the healthcare organizations it observed had an estimated impact of almost five times more sensitive data than the global averages. The impact was measured by encryption blast radius and sensitive data impacted.

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