Over 27 million affected by healthcare data breaches last year

Healthcare data breaches affected over 27 million people in the US last year, with the number of records breached having more than doubled compared to 2018. Indeed the total number of records breached has more than doubled each year, from 4.7M in 2017 to 11.5M in 2018, and to 27.5M in 2019. Cloud security company Bitglass has released its latest healthcare breach report analyzing data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Around 24 million people were affected by healthcare breaches due to hacking and IT incidents last year. This category was followed by unauthorized access or disclosure,… [Continue Reading]