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Ransomware and tax fraud rise as healthcare hit with more data breaches than any other industry

April 14, 2016

Via: HealthcareITnews

The healthcare industry accounted for the highest number of data breaches among service industries in 2015, according to a new 2016 Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec, that also found ransomware on the rise and increasingly sophisticated attack tactics being […]


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Healthcare data breaches spiked in 2015, surpassed previous years, BakerHostetler says

April 1, 2016

Via: HealthcareITnews

The rate of security incident disclosures in 2015 surpassed those of 2014 and 2015, according to the inaugural 2015 BakerHostetler Security Incident Response report. What’s more, healthcare tops the list for frequency of data breaches. “It’s not if, but when […]


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IBM Says that 2015 is the “Year of the Healthcare Breach”

December 30, 2015

Via: HITECH Answers

At the end of the year all kinds of publications and organizations publish yearly summaries to review the events of the past 12 months. Much of the time this can be positive publicity for a celebrity, firm, organization or industry. […]


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Your next breach risk could be your email

May 4, 2015

Via: Information management

The feds have released guidance to providers on how to protect patient data — but a recent breach shows why training staff may be the most crucial step. After two of the biggest breaches of patients’ protected health information (PHI) […]