Health Data Hacking Incident Affects 400,000

A surgery practice in Washington state has reported a hacking incident that resulted in a breach affecting 400,000 individuals, the largest added to the federal health data breach tally so far in 2019.Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane reported the breach to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, which now lists it on its HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website of major health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.The incident is described on the tally as...