Trust is the New Attack Surface in Healthcare
In 2026, more than 19 million individuals have had their information exposed in healthcare data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Roughly 91 percent of those incidents trace back to hacking or IT-related activity. The incidents that slip past an organization’s defenses show up as a routine email, an ordinary link, or a file that looks exactly like the hundreds of legitimate ones an employee opens every week. Across healthcare organizations, security teams are discovering that attacks bypassing every layer of their stack trace back to the same entry point: the browser session. One recent case shows exactly what that looks like in practice.
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August 21, 2026