Data Breaches in Healthcare: A Case Study

Abstract

As cyber crime continues to grow around the industries, medical identity theft and even the medical data breaches are vividly rising at disproportionate rates. Although all identity theft can greatly result in catastrophic damage to the customer’s financial wellbeing the medical identity theft can even affect the physical health of the customer. Nowhere even the impact of Cybercrime has greatly reached to extreme levels and is proving very disastrous even in the healthcare fields. In just the first few months of 2014 there were 51 healthcare/medical data breaches cases that arrived, according to the identity theft resource centre. In this I am even going to discuss one of the famous water breaching cases that occurred in Queensland, Australia which is famous for 2,000 MAROOCHY water attacks. This paper will show the mistakes of the workers in system handling. The lesson learned from this incident proved very helpful in the establishment of new agendas both in SCADA security system and Medical science.