Healthcare Cybersecurity Statistics

A U.S. healthcare provider faced over $40 million in account exposure related to fraudulent AI bot calls in 2025.

A major U.S. healthcare provider experiences over 15,000 unique bot fraud calls since the summer of 2025.

By the end of 2025, healthcare and insurance enterprises lag technology and startup sectors in AI coding assistant adoption by 9–12 percentage points due to regulatory requirements.

In 2025, Financial Services had 739 compromises; Healthcare had 534 compromises; Professional Services had 478 compromises; Manufacturing had 299 compromises; Education had 188 compromises (2025)

16% of email-related healthcare breaches in 2025 involved business associates.

Approximately 4.5% of outbound healthcare email connections were delivered to servers with expired or self-signed certificates.

Approximately 3 million email addresses in the healthcare sector may be at risk of exposure to cyberattacks due to unverified email delivery practices.

42% of SMBs are worried about outdated technologies, with healthcare businesses the most concerned.

The manufacturing industry accounted for 456 ransomware incidents totaling approximately $284.6 million in reported payments, while the financial services industry accounted for 432 incidents totaling approximately $365.6 million, and the healthcare industry accounted for 389 incidents totaling approximately $305.4 million.

The financial services industry has the highest percentage of full production deployments of Confidential Computing at 37%, followed by healthcare at 29% and government at 21%.

43.3% of healthcare email breaches involved Microsoft 365.

IT leaders estimate only 5% of known phishing attacks are reported by healthcare employees to their security teams.

There was a 264% increased surge of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations.

Barracuda, Mimecast, and Proofpoint account for 26.7% of healthcare email breaches in 2024.

1.1% of healthcare organizations analyzed had a 'Low Risk' email security posture.

68.8% of healthcare organizations analyzed had a 'Medium Risk' email security posture.

31.1% of healthcare organizations analyzed had a 'High Risk' email security posture.

61% of healthcare organizations cite compliance requirements as important security drivers.

107 email-related HIPAA breaches were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services in just the first half of 2025.

The current pace of healthcare breaches in 2025 suggests the year is set to exceed 180 email breaches, which was the total reported last year.

In one enforcement case, a clinic was fined $25,000 for a single message that contained protected health information (PHI) and was sent to the wrong person without encryption

68% of healthcare executives indicated that identity and access management would be the top priority for increasing investments in the coming fiscal year.

81% of healthcare executives believe that prioritizing cybersecurity in their business strategy is effective in overcoming challenges.

59% of healthcare organizations faced clinical consequences from cyber incidents, including delayed treatments and compromised patient trust.

60% of healthcare organizations reported operational disruptions due to cyber incidents.

81% of healthcare organizations believe that integrating cybersecurity into the core business strategy is effective in improving operational efficiencies to deliver better outcomes.

Healthcare organizations experienced an average of five different types of cyber threats that impacted their organizations in the past year.

72% of healthcare organizations experienced a moderate to severe financial impact from cyber incidents in the past two years.

Over 70% of healthcare organizations reported significant financial, operational, or clinical disruptions due to cyber threats in the past year.

52% of healthcare executives stated that training and upskilling personnel is an effective tool to combat cyber challenges.