Report: Healthcare last among number of data breaches
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 23, 2010
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Healthcare has seen its share of egregious data breaches in the past year. And now they’re public with the launch of the Office for Civil Rights website with posts of entities reporting breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals.
However, healthcare may actually be the best industry at securing information, according to the Verizon and US Secret Service "2010 Data Breach Investigations Report."
Healthcare accounted for the fewest number of data breaches according to study. The industry represented just 3% of breaches, while "financial services" accounted for the most at 33%.
Below is the full list of industries with data breaches:
- Financial services: 33%
- Hospitality: 23%
- Retail: 15%
- Manufacturing: 6%
- Tech services: 5%
- Business services: 4%
- Government: 4%
- Media: 4%
- Other: 4%
- Healthcare: 3%
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