Doctors’ details are being sold on the dark web for $750, with purchasers able to buy enough documents to pose as a physician, according to US cyber security experts.

Healthcare organisations are increasingly being targeted by cyber attacks because of the “goldmine” of personal data they possess, say the authors of the Healthcare Cyber Heists in 2019 report.

The “hottest” items on the dark web today are provider data and hacked health insurance company login information, the experts from cyber security firm Carbon Black write.

“Provider data is the most expensive and quite alarming, based on the listing descriptions,” they say.