Usage of gen AI in healthcare and cybersecurity challenges Penalties for HIPAA violations The most important statistics Number of data compromises in the U.S. healthcare sector 2005-2023 U.S. number of resolved health data breaches 2019-2024 YTD ...
Posted in: Healthcare Cybersecurity OCR Offers Advice on Recognizing, Avoiding, and Mitigating Social Engineering Attacks Posted October 28, 2024 by Steve Alder The majority of healthcare data breaches reported in the past few years are due to hacking incidents but many of these security incidents...
The theft of valuable protected health information (PHI) is a growing concern. Over half of healthcare CFOs (51%) say privacy breaches are a bigger risk in 2024 compared to 2023, according toBDO’s 2024 Healthcare CFO Outlook Survey. Cybercriminals exploit patient information to commit identity...
A Colorado-based pathology laboratory is notifying more than 1.8 million patients that their sensitive information was compromised in an April hack, one of the largest breaches reported by a medical testing lab to U.S. federal regulators to date. Ransomware gang Medusa is blamed for the attack....
A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are re...
The repercussions of such breaches aren’t abstract. When healthcare organizations lose control of their infrastructure, it presents real risks to patient safety, continuity of care and clinical decision-making processes. For instance, if the systems managing a patient’s Electronic Medical Record...
Healthcare cybersecurity includes the risk that sensitive patient data may be stolen or compromised, resulting in data breaches. As a government entity, the NHS is particularly susceptible to attempted cyberattacks and the frequency of ransomware attacks on healthcare and hospitalsis increasing. The ...
Medical Data Cybersecurity Breaches Cybersecurity breaches are a concern as an increasingly large amount of personal medical data is stored online. Pharmacies, laboratory facilities, and medical practices often have older versions of Windows, which leaves patients open to hackers and the risk of identi...
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...
//tinyurl.com/bdfyhawf), Healthcare and Public Health represented the infrastructure sector most affected by ransomware (p. 13).The HIPAA Journalreported: “There was no letup in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in 2023, which set two new records—the most reported data breaches and ...