Healthcare DIVE April 11, 2019
Dive Brief
- Healthcare again led all industries in cybersecurity breaches in 2018, claiming a quarter of the more than 750 incidents reported, BakerHostetler’s latest Data Security Incident Response Report shows.
- Health information was the second most at-risk type of data in cyber incidents, making up fully a third of potentially compromised records. Social Security numbers were the most at risk at 37%. More than half (55%) of all incidents involved insider error or activity, according to the report.
- Separately, Springfield, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health notified some 12,000 patients that a Feb. 7 phishing attack may have exposed their health information and the Veterans Health Administration alerted 4,882 veterans treated at its Martinsburg, West Virginia, medical center that personal information may...