HIPAA Journal

JULY 20, 2022

June 2022 saw 70 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – two fewer than May and one fewer than June 2021. For the third successive month, the number of exposed or compromised records has increased. Eye Care Leaders ransomware attack.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2022, 347 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – the same number of data breaches reported in 2H, 2021. The number of healthcare records breached has continued to fall. That is a 9.1%

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2022

November’s total of 49 breaches of 500 or more records was also well below the 12-month average of 58 breaches a month. 643 healthcare data breaches have been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights so far in 2022, which makes this year the second worst year to date for healthcare data breaches. Ransomware attack.

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Ransomware HIPAA Electronic Medical Records Doctors 91

HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For the third successive month, the number of healthcare data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has fallen, with 49 breaches of 500 or more records reported in August– well below the 12-month average of 58 breaches per month. Largest Healthcare Data Breaches Reported in August 2022.

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Ransomware HIPAA Electronic Medical Records Compliance 97

Compliancy Group

JUNE 29, 2022

In early December of 2021, Eye Care Leaders (Eye Care), an electronic medical record vendor supplying business associate services to eye care providers across the country, discovered it had incurred a data breach. Eye Care’s myCare Integrity solution was hacked via a ransomware attack on December 4, 2021. . Learn More! ×

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Ransomware Electronic Medical Records HIPAA Compliance 98

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

2023 was the worst-ever year for breached healthcare records with breached records increasing by 156% from 2022 to 133,068,542 breached records, beating the previous record of 113 million records set in 2015. In 2023, an average of 373,788 healthcare records were breached every day.

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