"35% More Patients Impacted by Healthcare Data Breaches in H2 2022"

Healthcare data breaches had the most impact in the second quarter of 2022 compared to previous years, with a 35 percent rise in the number of patient records compromised, according to Crucial Insight's H2 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report. Based on a review of breach data submitted to the HHS by healthcare organizations, the report discovered that victims of healthcare data breaches had 28.5 million records exposed in the second half of 2022, up from 21.1 million in 2019. Although the number of people affected by data breaches increased, the total number of breaches declined in 2022, resulting in a higher ratio of people affected per breach. In the second half of 2022, each breach affected about 91,028 patients, compared to only 61,246 in the first half of 2022. According to other health Information Technology (IT) vendors, most data breaches stemmed from hacking, which aligns with Crucial Insight's finding that hackers caused about 78 percent of healthcare data breaches. The percentage of hacking incidents rose from 61 percent in 2019 to 79 percent in 2022, while unauthorized access decreased from 27 percent in 2019 to 15 percent in 2022. Although hacking caused more breaches, the report found that unauthorized access exposes more records per breach. This article continues to discuss key findings from  Critical Insight's H2 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report. 

HealthITSecurity reports "35% More Patients Impacted by Healthcare Data Breaches in H2 2022"