HealthTech March 31, 2020
Healthcare cybercrime is on the rise. Federal records show that 510 major data breaches were reported last year, with each involving 500 or more records. That’s a 37 percent increase over 2018.
It isn’t the only spike: With the exception of 2015, data breaches of this magnitude have increased annually since the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights began publishing figures in 2009.
The total number of breached records rose from 13,947,909 two years ago to 41,335,889 in 2019, with the recent figure representing...