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MSU Study: Ransomware Drives US Health Data Breaches

A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks -- which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files--have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United States, compromising 285 million patient records over 15 years.

May 15, 2025


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