Healthcare IT News December 30, 2024
It was another record-breaking year for healthcare cyberattacks, and healthcare providers’ network servers were again prime targets for hackers.
Of the 421 hacking/IT incidents and unauthorized access/disclosure incidents attributed to healthcare providers across the United States reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this year, the top 15 data breaches affected 24,755,791 individuals.
WHY IT MATTERS
This year’s top two largest healthcare data breaches are Change Healthcare, with 100 million individuals affected, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, with 13.4 million individuals affected, according to a list of the 10 largest U.S. health data breaches in 2024. While these breaches far exceeded the impact across all types of HIPAA-covered entities, healthcare providers’ network servers were still a prime...
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