And 2021 has been a particularly dire year for healthcare data breaches, with incidents taking down networks for weeks at a time and potentially leading to disruptions of care throughout the country. To add insult to injury, some hospitals even face legal action after restoring access to their...
As a new year begins, threat actors are continuing to overwhelm providers and patients with healthcare data breaches. Someexperts predict that ransomware actors will favor data exfiltration over encryptionthis year and that they will shift their focus to APIs and other attack vectors in ...
In 2018, 369 major health data breaches affected 14.4 million individuals, and in 2021, a record high of 679 breaches affected nearly 45 million individuals. But the rate at which the number of breaches grew last year declined, he says. Compared with 2020, the number of breaches was up onl...
In the midst of a global pandemic, the federal breach tally shows that a record number of major health data breaches were reported in the U.S. in 2021, and the
The healthcare data breach at Ascension St. Vincent’s Coastal Cardiology impacted recently acquired legacy systems.
The California Attorney General ("AG") has issued guidance reminding health care providers of their duty to report health care data breaches and to comply with other state and federal data privacy laws. On August 24, 2021, the California AG issued abulletinreminding ...
1. Data Breach According to a report, in the month of April 2021,62 data breaches were reporteddue to which healthcare records were compromised. Protection of vital healthcare records is as important as providing medical treatment to patients. ...
The question is, over the past year, my organization saw an increase in data breaches or cyber attacks. Yes or no, We want to know if this is something you’re actively grappling with or if this is something that you’re sort of planning ahead to combat. So I’m gonna give you just...
In August this year, cyberattackers dumped the records of patients online after a failed attempt to extort money from Corbeil-Essonneshospitalnear Paris. One of the country's biggest data breaches took place in February 2021, when themedical recordsof nearly half a million people, including their...
Challenges with healthcare data storage and management From 2009 to 2021, data breaches impacted almost315 millionhealthcare records. Healthcare data is highly sensitive and more valuable to hackers and other cybercriminals than other types of personal information. For example, credit card numbers sell...