So What Is the Most Costly Type of Data in a Data Breach? … Health-related

If there is one area that data could be used to transform our lives, it is in health care. With the increased flow of data, we could preemptively detect the early signs of illness, or identity better whether interventions in health care actually improve things. But with this, we bring great risks in breaching the rights of the citizen to have their health care data treated in way that respects their rights to privacy. Unfortunately the data infrastructures that we have created often have little respect for properly encrypting and anonymising the data used in health care, and we thus risk major data breaches of citizen data, and which could damage future plans (and can lead to significant costs for health care providers).

In terms of sensitive data, health information is one of the most sensitive in terms of its scope:

You may think that your credit card details are the most precocious thing that a hacker can gain, but think again, as your health care record is probably worth a great deal more. Well the Ponemon Institute and IBM have just released their finding for health care data breaches for 2018, and it doesn’t make…