According to the firm, the technological advancement in the healthcare industry like remote health monitoring, electronic health records and the Internet of Things (IoT) provided cyber criminals with more opportunities to attack the sector.
The number of cyber attacks on the Indian healthcare industry was second highest globally, with 7.7 percent of total incidence on the segment being witnessed in the country in 2021, cyber security intelligence firm CloudSEK said on Tuesday.
According to the CloudSEK report on ”Increased cyber attacks on the global healthcare sector”, the US healthcare industry faced 28 percent of the total global attacks.
”India recorded the second highest number of attacks, with a total of 7.7 percent of the total attacks on the healthcare industry in 2021,” the report said.
The 7.7 percent of cyber attack incidence in the Indian healthcare industry translates into over 71 lakh records, according to the report. CloudSEK is among the entities that provide cyber threat intelligence to Indian cyber security watchdog CERTin.
According to the firm, the technological advancement in the healthcare industry like remote health monitoring, electronic health records and the Internet of Things (IoT) provided cyber criminals with more opportunities to attack the sector.
The data collated by CloudSEK shows that there have already been 1.87 lakh records in the first four months of 2022.
The dynamics of attack seem to have changed in 2022 at the global level. Australia has been the most-hit country with around 70 crore records followed by Thailand which has faced over 10 crore records in the first four months of 2022, according to the report.