In august 2017 the u s.
Healthcare data security breaches.
Healthcare does not parallel other industries in many respects especially in cyber security.
Healthcare data breach statistics from 2009 to 2017.
As the graph below shows aside from 2015 healthcare data breaches have increased every year since the hhs office for civil rights first started publishing breach summaries in october 2009.
The routine is familiar individuals receive notification by e mail of the breach paired reassuringly with two free years of credit and identity monitoring.
Perhaps one of the biggest healthcare data security breaches.
Prevention through proper security measures is paramount because victims of healthcare breaches are in fact able to sue the healthcare provider after a breach.
Court of appeals in washington d c ruled that health insurance company customers can sue a provider after a data breach.
A total of 78 8 million patient records were stolen.
Since this is the data breach investigations report we tend to put more focus on actual confirmed breaches.
In the healthcare sector.
A total of 78 8 million patient records were stolen.
Last year 510 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported which represents a 196 increase from 2018.
Although this sounds bad enough the type of data taken was highly sensitive and included records like social security numbers dates of birth and address.
Keck medicine in los angeles.
It seems that every day another hospital is in the news as the victim of a data breach.
The top causes of data breaches in healthcare are different than those of other industries according to a new report from verizon.
Healthcare data breaches often expose highly sensitive information from personally identifiable information such as social security numbers names and addresses to sensitive health data such as medicaid id numbers health insurance information and patients medical histories.