The number certainly outweighs the number but the number of records and people affected, the banking industry still wins that honor. The article goes on to state that most in healthcare are not break ins with servers, but rather people moving data on usb drives, discs, etc. that are not secured, in other words human errors in not encrypting data and moving it off a secured server.
Remember these are the reported cases and there may possibly be some out there that we may not be aware of that didn’t get reported for whatever reason. BD
Healthcare data breaches have swollen in 2010: Identity Theft Resource Center reports show that compromised data stores from healthcare organizations far outstrip other verticals this year. According to figures updated last week, healthcare organizations have disclosed 119 breaches so far this year, more than three times the 39 breaches suffered by the financial services industry.
Though many of these breaches aren't necessarily caused directly by unauthorized access or hacking of healthcare databases, some experts believe that the high numbers (PDF) are due to lax handling of how data is stored and accessed within these databases. This atmosphere, along with the extreme portability of healthcare data due to consumer devices and laptops and increasing numbers of malicious insiders seeking to profit from electronic medical records (EMRs) and other patient data, has formed a poisonous combination within the industry.
Healthcare Suffers More Data Breaches Than Financial Services So Far This Year - DarkReading
0 comments :
Post a Comment