The health care industry has long been a primary target of malicious cyber criminals, but since the emergence of COVID-19, organizations on the front lines of fighting the pandemic have experienced a rise in cybersecurity incidents and attacks. Between February and June of 2020, HIPAA covered entities reported 192 large scale data breaches to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) – more than twice as many as were reported during the same period in 2019.