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Georgia Hospital Alerts 120,000 Individuals of Data Breach
Memorial Hospital and Manor has informed approximately 120,000 individuals that their sensitive information was compromised in a ransomware attack that occurred in November 2024.
The rural medical facility in Bainbridge, Georgia, made the breach public in early November, stating that its digital systems were rendered inoperable, requiring staff to rely on manual record keeping using paper-based documentation.
The stolen data includes names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, medical records, treatment details and health insurance information.
The Embargo ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack, saying that it exfiltrated 1.15 terabytes of data, which has since been reportedly posted on its Tor-based leak platform.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/georgia-hospital-120000-data-breach/
120000 hört sich nach viel an, ist es aber nicht:
Healthcare Data Breach Statistics
The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website.
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Data breaches increased once again in 2022, with OCR receiving reports of 720 data breaches of 500 or more records. There was no letup in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in 2023, which set two new records – The most reported data breaches and the most breached records. In 2023, 725 data breaches were reported to OCR and across those breaches, more than 133 million records were exposed or impermissibly disclosed.
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https://www.hipaajournal.com/healthcare-data-breach-statistics/ Und Trump so: If Canada became a state, Canadians would have ‘much better’ health coverage, says Trump.