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More Than 3 Million Patient Records Breached During Q2 2018

More Than 3 Million Patient Records Breached During Q2 2018

August 15, 2018

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A new study by data security vendor Protenus has concluded that more than 3 million patient records were breached during the second quarter of 2018, in a sharp swing upward from the previous quarter with no obvious explanation.

The Protenus Breach Barometer study, which drew on both reports to HHS and media disclosures, found that there were 143 data breach incidents between April and June 2018, affecting 3,143,642 million patient records. The number of affected records has almost tripled from Q1 of this year, when 1.13 million records were breached.

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