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.
Office of Civil Rights received 34,077 new complaints of possible HIPAA and HITECH violations in 2021, a 25% increase from 2020, while funding constraints limit enforcement.
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 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.
Major Pepsi-Cola beverage manufacturer and distributor Pepsi Bottling Ventures has been impacted by a data breach stemming from the compromise of its IT systems with information-stealing malware, according to BleepingComputer.
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Organizations across 26 countries have invested $2.7 million in consumer data privacy this year, a 125% increase over the $1.2 million privacy spending in 2020, TechRepublic reports.
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