Over the past year, news outlets have been buzzing about Facebook, now called “Meta”, collecting vast amounts of data from healthcare organizations and tax return companies. Some of these companies are announcing breaches as a result of this data collection. Why are Companies Sending Sensitive Data to Facebook? Let’s be clear – Companies are not […]
In its second annual Velocity healthcare data breach report, Stern Security has critically analyzed over 5,000 data breaches since the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began tracking the information in 2009. Stern Security utilized data from their HealthcareBreaches.com website as well as published information from HHS to create this comprehensive study. Stern Security […]
In its first annual healthcare data breach report, Stern Security has critically analyzed over 4,000 data breaches since the Department of Health and Human Services began tracking the information in 2009. Stern Security utilized data from their HealthcareBreaches.com website as well as published information from Health and Human Services to create this comprehensive report. This […]
Healthcare breaches have recently reached a grim milestone. As of June 10th, 2022, the number of Protected Health Information (PHI) records breached has reached 341,995,928. To put in prospective, this number surpasses the United States population which is at 332,759,097 (United States Census Bureau, 2022). It must be noted that these numbers only include reported healthcare […]
One would think that most data breaches were caused by hacking as those are the breaches that are always mentioned in the news. However, up until the end of 2019, Theft was still the top cause of breaches in healthcare according to data compiled from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office […]