{"id":214026,"date":"2025-05-14T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ransomware-attacks-drive-majority-of-us-health-data-breaches-analysis-shows"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:07:17","slug":"ransomware-attacks-drive-majority-of-us-health-data-breaches-analysis-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ransomware-attacks-drive-majority-of-us-health-data-breaches-analysis-shows","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attacks drive majority of US health data breaches, analysis shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ransomware-attacks-drive-majority-of-us-health-data-breaches-analysis-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks\u2014which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files\u2014have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United States, compromising 285 million patient records over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Published May 14 in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2833984\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a> provides the first comprehensive analysis of ransomware\u2019s role in health care breaches across all entities covered by privacy laws\u2014hospitals, physician practices, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/health+plans\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">health plans<\/a> and data clearinghouses\u2014from 2010 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRansomware has become the most disruptive force in health care cybersecurity,\u201d said John (Xuefeng) Jiang, Eli Broad Endowed Professor of accounting and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/information+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information systems<\/a> in the MSU Broad College of Business and lead author of the study. \u201cHospitals have been forced to delay care, shut down systems and divert patients\u2014all while sensitive patient data is held hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks\u2014which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files\u2014have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United States, compromising 285 million patient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,34,1625,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}