Healthcare in 2019
12.12.2019
Back to newsOctober 2019 – the month of healthcare data breaches
38 million medical records have already been compromised in 2019
According to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights’ monthly report, details of 661,830 records were exposed in October 2019 creating a 44% leap in medical records breaches
52 breaches were reported during October
11.64% of the U.S. population got their healthcare data sources affected
152,000 records were disclosed due to ransomware attack
208,248 records were leaked due to a phishing attack online
82,577 records were breached due to a mailing error
28 incidents affecting 134,775 records were caused by unauthorised access or unauthorised disclosure
5 incidents occurred due to data loss or theft and compromised 13,454 records
11,754 records were leaked because of improper disposal of confidential information