More Than 700,000 People Affected in Healthcare Data Breaches During August 2019
More than 700,000 people had their data and personally identifiable information exposed in healthcare breaches reported to the federal government in August of 2019.
In August, there were a total of 44 data breaches—affecting a total of 710,279 individuals— reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights, the agency responsible for maintaining the government's database of healthcare breaches, says a news report. Two of the data breaches reported to the OCR in August affected more 100,000 people each, notes the report.