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Healthcare data breaches have fallen this year but could surge over the next few months as hospital records remain a top target, says CI Security.
Published on Thursday, "The Healthcare Data Breach Report" specifically looks at data breaches reported by healthcare organizations from January through June 2020.
For the first six months of the year, data breaches involving the protected health information of patients dropped dramatically, according to CI Security's review of data sent to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Healthcare organizations were simply too busy to report data breaches.
The decline in breaches against hospitals is not expected to last, according to CI Security, which expects cyberattacks to surge over the next six months.