In August, Community Health Systems announced that an external group of hackers attacked its computer network that an external group of hackers attacked its computer network and stole non-medical data of 4.5 million patients – the second-largest HIPAA breach ever reported.
According to a Ponemon Institute report, 73 percent of organizations surveyed had a data breach response plan, up from 61 percent in 2013 Crain’s New York Business/Modern Healthcare. Forty-three percent of this year’s respondents say their organizations had experienced a data breach in the past two years, marking an increased from 33 percent in 2013.