Cybersecurity Breaches In Healthcare

Read our article on the latest healthcare cybersecurity statistics.
Cybersecurity breaches in healthcare. The healthcare industry is a prime target of hackers. Last year 510 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported which represents a 196 increase from 2018. 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. Be aware of the latest numbers.
It seems that every day another hospital is in the news as the victim of a data breach. Healthcare data breaches by the numbers. Health and human services department suffered a cyber attack on its computer system part of what people familiar with the incident called a campaign of disruption and disinformation that. If this trend continues and we figure an average of 32 breaches per month 2019 will have the same amount of healthcare industry data breaches as previous years.
The routine is familiar individuals receive notification by e mail of the breach paired reassuringly with two free years of credit and identity monitoring. Figures from the department of health and human services office for civil rights breach portal show a major increase in healthcare data breaches in 2019. Which means pretty much no improvement in cybersecurity for this sector. July 23 2019 in 2018 the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised in 503 breaches three times the amount seen in 2017 according to the protenusbreach barometer.