This statistic depicts common types of cyber attacks experienced by U.S. physicians according to a survey conducted in July and August 2017. Generally, more than 80 percent of all surveyed physicians stated that they've already experienced some kind of cyber attack, whereby phishing mails were the most common type of attack.
Types of cyber attacks experienced by U.S. physicians as of 2017
Characteristic
Percentage of respondents
Experienced some form of cyberattack
83%
Phishing (e.g. someone clicked on a malicious link in an email)
55%
Computers were infected with viruses or malware (e.g. through a download)
48%
Employee or insider inappropriately accessed or attempted to access ePHI*
37%
A breach of ePHI*
20%
Network was hacked
12%
Our practice's information was held ransom (e.g. 'Ransomware')
9%
Other cybersecurity attack(s) not mentioned
9%
Not applicable; my practice has not experienced any issues/attacks
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