"If [health care organizations] have a [data breach]

... we always recommend that they contact us as soon as possible, and there are multiple reasons for that. One is that we can assist not only in the investigative role but perhaps help them mitigate and contain the breach and prevent further loss of data. The other reason is that, since cyber evidence is electronic in nature, it is very perishable. That evidence may literally dissipate, the electronics may dissipate and we will lose evidence, or potentially lose evidence, the longer they wait...to contact us."

— John Riggi, chief of the Outreach Section of the FBI's Cyber Division, in an exclusive interview with AIS's Report on Patient Privacy.