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Becker's: 3 Million Records Breachedin Q2 - 6 Things to Know
Submitted by Clive Riddle on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 17:24
- May was worst month for healthcare data breaches: 50 incidents disclosed, affecting 1.87M patient records.
- Nine per 1,000 employees breached patient privacy: snooping on family members most common insider threat (71.4 %t)
- Most incidents (36.62%) result of hacking, while 30.99% resulted from insider error or wrongdoing
- Twenty-three of the disclosed breaches, or 16%, involved paper records
- Majority of breaches hit providers (76.37%), followed by health plans (10.91%t) and business associates or vendors (5.45%)
- It took an average of 204 days for an organization to discover a breach
Source: Becker's Health IT & CIO Report, August 10, 2018
Source URL: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/3m-patie...
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