Hacking Healthcare: With 385M Patient Records Exposed, Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Breach Surge
Hacking incidents, a type of breach, at healthcare firms have skyrocketed in the past five years as cybercriminals demand ransoms in exchange for restoring access to sensitive medical data. Federal records show that healthcare breaches have exposed 385 million patient records from 2010 to 2022. However, individual patient records could be counted multiple times. In the wake of a ransomware attack on one of the nation’s largest hospital operators last year, Healthcare Dive analyzed more than 5,000 breaches reported over the past 13 years to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, the agency tasked with enforcing privacy and security laws in the healthcare sector. Learn More
Hacking healthcare: With 385M Patient Records Exposed, Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Breach Surge (Healthcare Dive, Liss, 3/9).
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