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Healthcare breaches increased over 50% in 2020
2021-02-18 05:30

In 2020, there were 599 healthcare breaches that collectively affected over 26 million individuals.

Bitglass' report takes an in-depth look at the breaches that healthcare organizations faced, comparing them to previous years and revealing key trends and cybersecurity challenges facing the industry.

Hacking and IT incidents also led to larger breaches than other categories did, compromising 91.2% of all exposed healthcare records in 2020.

Healthcare breaches increased, costing $13.2 billion The average cost per breached record increased from $429 in 2019 to $499 in 2020.

With 26.4 million records exposed in 2020, data breaches cost healthcare organizations $13.2 billion.

California had the most healthcare breaches in 2020 with 49 incidents - surpassing last year's leader, Texas, which suffered 43 breaches in 2020.


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