Breach

This week’s breach roundup includes a number of nonprofit or community service providers, led by a network hack at Chicago’s South Shore Hospital that affected nearly 116,000 patients.

A Flashpoint and Risk Based Security report showed that the total number of data breaches has dropped by 5% from 2020 to 2021, according to TechRepublic. However, the decline may be erroneous and the number of incidents may be underestimated as breaches take longer to report.

This week’s healthcare breach roundup is led by an update to the Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority (RIPTA) investigation, which shows the involvement of the state’s health plan administrator.

A new Critical Insight report details ongoing healthcare data breach trends in an effort to support provider organizations and business associates to stymy the ongoing cybersecurity crisis.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes several network hacks, one of which lasted for four years. The lead incident is the theft of sensitive data from the nonprofit health support provider, Advocates.

Financial institutions over the last few years have paid multi-million dollar penalties related to security mismanagement that led to breaches or a failure to give appropriate notification to customers about compromises.