How AI Will Reshape Health Data Breach, Attack Trends

Jim Van Dyke of TransUnion on Emerging Cybercrime Considerations Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • December 23, 2025 20 Minutes

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the healthcare sector attack landscape and fraud patterns, said Jim Van Dyke, senior principal of innovation at TransUnion.

As cybercriminals utilize AI tools, smaller medical practices, insurers and third-party vendors will especially face risk of falling victim to these attacks, Van Dyke said.

"AI is being used by the good operators, the bad operators and it has to do with what I think is the next biggest vulnerability, which is breaches, for healthcare especially, continuing to move down market to smaller entities," he said.

Whether it's the primary healthcare firms, an insurer, a third-party service provider, or the myriad of other organizations that make up the U.S. healthcare system, "we have to pass these records back and forth ...