Nine out of 10 hospitals lost personal data in last two years

A new study from the Ponemon Institute and security firm ID Experts surveyed 80 health care organizations and found that 94 percent had experienced a data-loss incident in the past two years. Another 45 percent sustained more than five breaches during that period. Source: SC Magazine

Escalating healthcare data breaches come with $7bn pricetag

Healthcare data breaches, despite their high profile in the news, aren’t getting any rarer: in fact, lost or stolen devices and employee errors are heading towards a $7 billion price tag for the industry – more than the level of funding that the US government gives cancer research.

Companies are losing control of their data to the mobile revolution

Users are sharing information on social networks and using public cloud services to move data from corporate to personal devices in ways that by-pass company security policies and systems, and expose company data. Source: Infosecurity (USA)

California Medicaid department publishes 14K SSNs on public website

The State of California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has acknowledged that it accidentally published 14,000 Social Security numbers online for nine days last month. Source: Infosecurity (USA)