Individual patient records impacted by data breaches totaled 28.5 million during the last six months of 2022, the highest on record, compared with 21.1 million in 2019, even though the number of breaches declined between the first and second halves of 2022, HealthITSecurity reports.
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Ohio and Pennsylvania AGs say hack discovered nine years after DNA Diagnostics acquired server from Orchid Cellmark in 2012 and failed to use reasonable data security.
Louisiana-based Xavier University, which is the only Catholic historically Black college or university in the U.S., disclosed that more than 44,000 students and vendors had their personal information, including their full names and Social Security numbers, compromised as a result of a cyberattack on Nov. 22, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
A newly released financial report for CommonSpirit Health shows the month-long outage suffered by the health system in the fall, cost at least $150 million to date.
A two-month study on the data broker industry confirms these third parties are actively advertising the sale of consumer mental-health data due to the lack of privacy protections.
Maine government officials have dismissed being compromised by the GhostSec hacking group after the operation allegedly exfiltrated 40 GB of data from the state government's websites, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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