Hacking into health is big business

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Hacking into health is big business

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Healthcare is being subjected to cyber attacks at a higher rate than other industries, an international survey found [image: gorodenkoff on iStock]

Alan Perrott delves into the international context of the latest cyber attack to disable a New Zealand healthcare network

Just as Pinnacle Midlands Health Network PHO was announcing its cyber attack earlier this month, half a world away the same thing was happening to a m, Tom_Bowden.jpg , Tom Bowden, founder of HealthLink and director of Cognoscenti Digital Health, queries data aggregation