A recent survey has revealed the extent to which pharma businesses are failing to report data breaches. Here, Dominic Johnstone, head of Information Management Services at Crown Records Management, discusses the shocking results.
Data breach
Data breaches have been hitting news headlines worldwide this year including high profile stories, such as that of the mobile phone company Three — where an employee’s password was stolen in March and the data of 200,000 customers compromised. Then in April, cybercriminals seized 250,000 customer records at Wonga — this data breach included bank account details. Probably the biggest story for pharma was that of Merck, which fell victim to a ‘NotPetya’ cyber-attack in June, leading to a shutdown of its manufacturing operations.1,2