Politico May 31, 2024
By Chelsea Cirruzzo and Ben Leonard

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MILLIONS HIT IN 2024 — Sixty-nine more health care data breaches have occurred in the first quarter of 2024 than in the same period in 2023, according to HHS data.

In all, 226 breaches in the first three months of 2024 compromised health data for 17.2 million patients compared with 157 breaches during the same period in 2023, which compromised the data of 17.6 million patients, per a preliminary review of the latest data of breaches from the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

The data includes a cyberattack at Concentra Health Services in January that exposed nearly 4 million individuals and attacks at INTEGRIS Health and Medical Management Resource Group, LLC, with each impacting nearly 2.4 million...

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