2019 Health Care Data Breaches Setting Records

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by Janel MillerSeptember 26, 2019
~ Courtesy of Healio Primary Care

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The article also said that more than 35 million individuals are known to have had their health care records “compromised, exposed, or impermissibly disclosed” thus far in 2019, which is more than the previous 3 full years combined.

A record-breaking 50 health care data breaches involving more than 500 records each were reported to HHS this past July, according to a report published in HIPAA Journal.

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UCI Cybersecurity Group Will Simulate Attacks

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By Kevin Costelloe
Monday, August 26, 2019

A University of California-Irvine cybersecurity effort is planning a “test range” to simulate and evaluate various types of cyberattacks, the group’s executive director said.

UCI Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute’s Bryan Cunningham said the effort will let the group “pretend we’re all different kinds of attacker groups” targeting electronic victims.

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