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More than 230 Million US Health Records Have Been Stolen or Lost in Past Decade

09

Sep

2020

The data breach phenomenon has been plaguing the US healthcare sector for more than a decade, with a 2,733% increase between 2009 and 2019, according to a PrivacyAffairs study. Through analysis of reported healthcare data breaches over the past decade, researchers have revealed some alarming statistics: 3,054 data breaches were disclosed between 2009-2019 230,954,151 healthcare […]

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Walgreens Discloses Data Breach Impacting Personal Health Information of More Than 72,000 Customers

13

Aug

2020

The second-largest pharmacy chain in the US recently disclosed a data breach that may have compromised the personal health information (PHI) of more than 72,000 individuals across the United States. According to Walgreens spokesman Jim Cohn, prescription information of customers was stolen during May protests, when around 180 of the company’s 9,277 locations were looted. […]

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Google could launch a health data service at I/O this month

13

Jun

2014

Google and personal health data have a rocky past. That includes a unified medical record service called Google Health that the company shut down less than four years after its launch. Now, with a rise of wearable devices — including upcoming ones running Android Wear — Google wants to offer a way to collect and organize the activity […]

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More than 230 Million US Health Records Have Been Stolen or Lost in Past Decade

Walgreens Discloses Data Breach Impacting Personal Health Information of More Than 72,000 Customers

Google could launch a health data service at I/O this month

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