Data breaches of electronic health records

Data breaches of electronic health records in the United States more than doubled since 2012. The exact estimate is about 140 percent. There might be many more ...

Data breaches of electronic health records in the United States more than doubled since 2012. The exact estimate is about 140 percent. There might be many more data breaches that are simply unreported. That’s because there’s no reporting requirement when fewer than 500 people are affected by an attack. Still, the healthcare cybersecurity group Redspin says about 30 million health records fell victim to a data breach since 2009. The majority of cases are NOT the result of a cyber attack, though. Healthcare I-T News reports only six percent of the compromised records were the result of hacking. More than one in three cases are the result of people stealing or losing encrypted devices or computers. Another 20 percent of cases are from unauthorized access to the health data.

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