Since 2009, health care data breach statistics are:
- 8% involve hacking
- 40.9 million individuals’ records have been exposed
- Of the individual records, 19%, were blamed on hackers
- This includes a hack, allegedly by Chinese hackers ,to the health care data at Community Health System in Franklin, TN, resulting in stolen personally identifiable information on 4.5 million individuals.
- Of the individual records, 19%, were blamed on hackers
President Obama’s federal data breach proposal would pre-empt state law, but it EXEMPTS health care and banking, which each have their own data breach standards. Modern Healthcare