Security News > 2021 > December > Top 10 healthcare breaches in the U.S. exposed data of 19 million
A tally of public data breach reports so far shows that tens of millions of healthcare records have been exposed to unauthorized parties.
Most of the largest data breaches result from ransomware attacks and the first ten of them account for more than half of all the healthcare records exposed in 2021.
The top ten cyber events with the widest impact listed on the portal of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights are from hacking incidents and account for exposing data of almost 19 million people.
The second-largest data breach in the healthcare sector impacted the 20/20 Eye Care Network in Florida, which resulted in exposing the personal data of over 3.2 million individuals.
The Kroger Co. confirmed a data breach that exposed records of 1.47 million people.
In total, data of 1.2 million people were exposed.