₹22,845 Crore Cyber Fraud 36 Lakh Victims Why Doctors Are the Prime Targets

India faces ₹22,845 Crore Cyber Fraud, and doctors become prime targets day by day. At some point in the last twelve months, India lost its digital innocence. ₹22,845 crore stolen, siphoned, wiped clean from citizens’ accounts, but this time not with guns or getaway vans. Just links, silence, and shadows.

There was no headline loud enough, no obituary for trus, only a giant, ghastly number dropped into Parliament, and then quietly buried under the news cycle. But here’s the part no one told you: The healthcare sector is facing cyber attacks daily basis in India, and unfortunately, is growing

Because you’re busy, trusted, so you never see it coming.

In clinics from Kashmir to Kaniyakumari, Delhi to Dehradun, Mumbai to Manali, in small private practices, in sprawling hospitals, fraudsters have walked in through the wires. Not through the door or threats, but just through a cleverly spoofed UPI link, a cloned prescription pad, and a fake telemedicine ad using your name. By the time the doctor notices, it’s over, gone, money, data, reputation, peace, everything turns into shambles 

Let’s talk numbers. Not fiction. Not fear. But fact.

The Ministry of Home Affairs recently dropped the curtain:

1: ₹22,845.73 crore vanished to cyber fraud in 2024

2: Up 206% from the previous year

3: Over 36 lakh cases filed on national portals

4: 9.42 lakh SIMs and 2.63 lakh mobile devices blocked

5: 24 lakh+ mule accounts used to launder stolen funds

But these numbers don’t just speak, they scream. And yet, we’re still behaving like it’s not our problem. Doctors, especially, are in the crosshairs, and still, most don’t even have a cyber insurance policy in place.

What happens when the hacker isn’t a concept but a reality?

In a recent tragic incident reported by The Times of India, a 46-year-old doctor from Padma Rao Nagar, Secunderabad, lost Rs 53 lakh in an online stock market investment scam after being duped by fraudsters posing as broking firm representatives. On July 25, 2025, a doctor lost ₹53 lakh through a single click. The doctor’s name was utilised, and the trust that had been built up over time was shattered in minutes. There are no expert forums that teach you what to do next. No regulatory body rushes to your aid. You’re on your own. Unless you knew it was coming. Unless you had been protected.

You wouldn’t enter an OT without gloves. Why run a practice without cybersecurity?

In a world where robots guide surgeries and prescriptions are written on mobile apps, you are now an internet-based being, whether you like it or not. And in this world, every login, device, and assistant’s smartphone serves as a gateway, not just to your clinic. But now, into your life. So let us stop pretending that cyber insurance is an afterthought and stop thinking that this is someone else’s disaster. Let us quit waiting for a wake-up call with our names on it.

CoverPrime’s Customized 360° Indemnity wasn’t created in a boardroom

It was forged in fire, based on true stories. Doctors who were ambushed by technology never completely understood. Families were caught in the crossfire. WhatsApp messages have escalated into legal threats. Of careers destroyed by digital faults rather than clinical ones. This is a policy, not a product. This is a response. To a new type of battle. One which does not knock, warn, or bleed. However, it continues to cause destruction.

What it gives you is not just reimbursement, but it gives you your sanity back.

1: Full-fledged cyber insurance policy, not just indemnity. With this Customized CP policy, protect your money, data, and name

2: Family coverage, because fraud doesn’t stop at your consultation chamber. With this policy get coverage and protection for family members as well. 

3: Reputation Protection in case your identity is used in scams

4: Digital recovery assistance because you’ll need experts, not apologies

This isn’t some insurance policy on paper or in fine print. It’s the core of the plan, because today, your biggest risk may not be a scalpel slip. It may be a software breach.

Let’s stop calling this the future. This is already your present.

The ₹22,845 crore that vanished last year? That wasn’t just a number, but a warning flare, a siren call for every doctor still depending on outdated indemnity protection, basic antivirus apps, or blind luck. You don’t deserve to be ruined because you were too busy saving lives to notice a phishing link.

Conclusion 

You’ve studied for years. Built a practice over decades. Earned the trust of thousands. And all of that, all of it, can fall apart because of one email. Don’t let the next ₹22,845 crore story include your name. You may never be able to stop cybercrime. But with CoverPrime, you can stop it from stopping you. CoverPrime Customized 360° Indemnity, not just a cyber insurance policy, not just indemnity. But a barrier, backup, and a breathing space when everything else is gone. You’ve earned the right to practice in peace. CoverPrime is here to make sure you can.