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Health Data Breach Tally s 2021 Surge Continues
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Another big wave of large breaches stemming from hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks, has flooded the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks.
Nearly 100 new breaches have been posted to the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website, which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.
As of Thursday, the HHS Office for Civil Rights website showed 251 major breaches had been added to the tally so far this year, affecting a total of nearly 17.3 million individuals. That’s a big jump since April 19, when the tally listed 159 breaches affecting a combined total of 12.5 million individuals (see:
Updated on May 11, 2021 at 12:55 pm
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San Ysidro Health, a health care provider with 47 clinics serving 108,000 people, has notified its community that it was the victim of a cyberattack in late 2020 and that data containing the personal information of patients was compromised.
The news about San Ysidro comes in the wake of headlines last week about an outage at Scripps Health that has continued into this week. An official at the California Department of Public Health described that incident as a ransomware attack.
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