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On October 24th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights data breach portal updated the total number of people impacted by the UnitedHealth data breach to 100 ...
The 14 Biggest Data Breaches in Healthcare Ranked by Impact. Each listed event is supported with a summary of the data that was comprised, how the breach occurred, and key learnings to protect you from suffering a similar fate. 1. Tricare Data Breach. Date: September 2011. Impact: 5 million patients. How did the breach occur?
The huge total for 2023 includes 26 data breaches of more than 1 million records and four breaches of more than 8 million records. The largest data breach of the year affected 11,270,000 individuals – the second-largest healthcare data breach of all time.
Several major healthcare cyberattacks have been reported in the first half of 2024, including a ransomware attack on Ascension that took its electronic medical record system out of action for a month and a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare that caused massive disruption for providers across the country due to the unavailability of Change He...
More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented...
In 2023, an average of 373,788 healthcare records were breached every day. The total of 133 million records is also likely to significantly increase. To meet the breach reporting requirements of the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, OCR must be notified within 60 days of the discovery of a data breach.
That has been made clear in a string of recent breaches that have exposed sensitive medical information, including a hack at the genetic testing company 23andMe; a ransomware attack in November...