Tracking Common Causes of Recent Health Data Breaches

These incidents, which include ransomware and phishing attacks - as well as misconfigured IT - are the culprits in nearly two-thirds of the 81 major health data breaches that have been added to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website so far this year.Those 51 hackingIT incidents affected nearly 2.8 million individuals, or more than 90 percent of the 3 million individuals affected by breaches added to the tally so far in 2019.Commonly called...