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Pixel tracking violations have cost U.S. healthcare providers over $100 million in fines, exposing critical gaps in HIPAA compliance and patient data privacy. Failures included missing risk assessments, no consent, and weak vendor oversight.

Arctic Wolf has identified a social engineering campaign targeting health care providers in the United States. Throughout multiple incidents, hospital help desks have received suspicious phone calls from unidentified individuals claiming to be doctors who had forgotten their password. When the callers were confronted with a request to verify their identities, including first name and department affiliation, the suspicious callers disconnected.

Few sectors exemplify the enormous value of data as healthcare does. From the relatively mundane, such as digitalizing patient data for streamlined care, to the extraordinary, like the use of AI to revolutionize prostate cancer diagnosis and care, data is the lifeblood of modern healthcare and, as such, must be protected. For years, we have been told that humans and human error are the weakest link in cyber defenses, but it's time to challenge this notion.