In 2024, Change Healthcare, a major health payment processing company, experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive patient information. This incident raised widespread concern in the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) industry and many healthcare organizations because it exposed the serious consequences of inadequate cybersecurity measures. Such incidents are not uncommon, as cyber-attacks and data breaches have become increasingly frequent across various industries over the past few decades.
For example, The Walt Disney Company recently experienced a massive cyberattack where more than one terabyte of data from its internal communications platform, Slack, was leaked. Slack is a cloud-based hub that lets employees communicate in real time and share files. Due to the cyberattack, information about Disney’s unreleased projects, login credentials, links to internal web pages, and more were released.
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