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Health care providers – not hackers – leak more of your data
Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits.
New research from Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University found that more than half of the recent personal health information, or PHI, data breaches were because of internal issues with medical providers – not because of hackers or external parties.
“There’s no perfect way to store information, but more than half of the cases we reviewed were not triggered by external factors – but rather by internal negligence,” said John (Xuefeng) Jiang, lead author and associate professor of accounting and information systems at MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, follows the joint 2017 study that showed the magnitude of hospital data breaches in the United States. The research revealed nearly 1,800 occurrences of large data breaches in patient information over seven years, with 33 hospitals experiencing more than one substantial breach.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @01:06PM
Punish them hard enough or expect a lot more of this.
Corporations exist for one purpose, to make money. If the cost of adding any kind of security is higher than the punishment for not doing so, such measures will not be taken. When we take into account that not all crimes will come to daylight the punishment should be very much higher than the cost of doing the right thing to give us a fighting chance.
Maybe attack is the best defence, we should attack health care providers and extract and publish some very damaging information on some very important and powerful people. Then maybe the system would start to get fixed.