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How to protect your health data. Although much of health care has moved in the direction of digital charts and online patient portals, test results and scheduling, Medhe said it is smart to have ...
With the number of data breach victims up nearly 500% in 2024, Experian provides six steps to take if your information is compromised.
Data breaches are happening at an alarming rate as more and more data is stored in the cloud. In 2023, 82% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud, according to an IBM report as reported by ...
Health care organizations are increasingly using cloud computing as a way to handle large amounts of data. This type of data storage, however, is susceptible to natural disasters, cybercrime and technological terrorism, and hardware failure. Health information breaches accounted for the 39 percent of all breaches in 2015.
Medical data, including patients' identity information, health status, disease diagnosis and treatment, and biogenetic information, not only involve patients' privacy but also have a special sensitivity and important value, which may bring physical and mental distress and property loss to patients and even negatively affect social stability and national security once leaked.
A study by the Ponemon Institute found that 94% of health care organizations have had at least one data breach in the past two years. 45% reported more than five data breaches, up from 29% in 2010.
How to get out ahead of a data breach. When it comes to data breaches of big companies that have your information, there's not much you can do to get your data back to prevent it leaking, Murray said.
Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) detected a data breach on Jan. 2 after identifying unusual activity within its computer systems. An investigation confirmed that a skilled hacker had accessed ...