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 ...
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government incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records starting in 2011, they’re leaving themselves vulnerable to collective losses of $6 billion a year due to data breaches, according to estimates in a benchmark study by the Ponemon Institute privacy and data-management research ...
As we are all painfully aware,2020 was a challenging yearin countless ways. Not the least of these is that attackers took full advantage of vulnerabilities in cyber defenses, including those of healthcare organizations. Healthcare data breachesrose by 25% in 2020and areprojected to triplein 202...
Ransomware isn’t the only threat.The healthcare industry also experiences extremely high volumes of data breaches.Healthcare data breaches hit an all-time high in 2021, exposing a record number of patients’ protected health information (PHI). According to HHS data, attacks impacted some 45 mill...
Currently, digital security breaches are becoming more common. Healthcare data breaches have compromised over 50 million medical records per year. In Ethiopia, health digitization has grown gradually. However, there is a limitation of study in digital health security. Studying digital health data ...
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 ...
It’s not just the number of healthcare data breaches that cause concern. We must also assess the severity of a violation, which considers how many individuals they affect. In 2021 and 2022, 45.9 and 51.9 million records, respectively, were breached. Unfortunately, 2024 was a record-breaking...
The healthcare industry in the US has reported the most expensive data breaches during the last 11 years. An average of USD 9.23 million was lost to healthcare data breaches in 2021 alone, and this amount is rising annually. According to an IBM article, it estimated that in 2023, data ...
2023 Healthcare Breach Report: Data breaches in healthcare drop, but the number of Americans affected increase, signaling evolving cyber threats.