Healthcare is one of the biggest adopters of APIs with healthcare API traffic growing by more than 400 percent in 2020.
Marsh McLennan Global Cyber Risk Analytics Center
In a recent study, 100% of 30 of the leading mobile health (mHealth) apps were found to be vulnerable to API attacks which could allow unauthorized individuals to gain access to full patient records.
Personal health information is the most valuable data on the dark web, demanding 10 times more the price of a credit card for a single PHI record.
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