40 Million Americans Affected by Health Data Breaches in 2019
Forty million Americans were affected by health data breaches in 2019 — a 65-percent increase from 14 million in 2018.
The Fortified Health Security 2020 report, titled The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare, compiled annual data from 2009 through 2019 and found last year was the highest number recorded since 2015 when 113.27 million records were exposed — an increase of 84 percent from 17.4 million in 2014.