In 2023, the most significant healthcare data breach incident in the United States was the HCA Healthcare breach.
The2023 Cost of a Data Breach Reportanalyzes data collected from March 2022 to March 2023. Healthcare remains a top target for online criminal groups. These data breach costs are the highest of any industry and have increased for the 13th consecutive year. Healthcare is a highly regulated indu...
UPDATE 7/10/2023, 4:35 PM- This article was update to reflect the number of individuals impacted and to include commentary from a cybersecurity expert. HCA Healthcare confirmed a data breach that impacted approximately 11 million patients, resulting from data theft by an unauthorize...
Data breach at major healthcare firmsQuest Diagnostics, a major medical testing firm in the US, and blood-testing firm LabCorp have both suffered data breaches affecting more than 19 million people via a service supplier they share.Elsevier BVcomputer fraud & security...
The breach tally makes itthe largest healthcare data breachreported so far this year. The “suspicious activity” was discovered on the Shields network on March 28, which “may have involved data compromise.” Shields took steps to contain the incident, and an investigation was launc...
Hacking/IT incidents are now the most common causes of healthcare data breaches, according to the HIPPA journal Healthcare Data Breach Statistics (collected till December 2021). unauthorised access/disclosure incidents are also common. According to the publication, data breaches have increased from ...
A digital attack on a Massachusetts-based health care organization may have compromised the personal information of as many as 2 million people, officials said.
Medical data of 33,000 BJC HealthCare patients exposed online for 8 months An internal scan by the St. Louis-based health system found a misconfigured server could be easily... ByJessica Davis| March 14, 2018 News Malware attack causes breach of 134,512 patient records ...
ConnectOnCall, which operates a communication platform that connects patients with healthcare providers during off-hours, is reaching out to nearly 1 million people about a breach that compromised their sensitive health information. The Wilmington, Del.-based firm reported the breach on Dec. 11. Ar...
By Healthcare Dive staff 7 of the biggest healthcare cyberattack and breach stories of 2024 Cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry continued to rise this year. Here are some of the largest incidents, from Change Healthcare to Ascension. ...