Mercom Capital Group January 3, 2021
More than 10 million people were affected by the breaches
Cybercrimes are on the rise in almost every industry. The healthcare industry was especially hard hit in 2020. More than 10 million people were affected by the healthcare data breaches in 2020. The top healthcare data breaches in 2020:
In July, Trinity’s philanthropy database vendor, Blackbaud, notified the health system that it had been the victim of a cyberattack, potentially obtaining access to patient and donor information of 3,320,726. In a security notice, Blackbaud said that it had paid the ransom to have the data copy destroyed.
Inova was affected by the Blackbaud security incident. The Virginia-based system determined that the threat actor may have accessed the personal information of...