9 Recent Healthcare Data Breaches

Here are nine data breaches that occurred within the past month, starting with the most recent.

  1. Broward Health Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., disclosed a recent data breach at the hospital that affected 960 former patients.
  2. HOPE Family Health in Westmoreland, Tenn., announced a data breach involving a laptop stolen from an employee's home. About 8,000 current and former patients' information was compromised.
  3. An unencrypted laptop containing the personal and health information of 3,541 patients was stolen from the car of a University of California San Francisco Medical Center employee.
  4. A phishing scam targeting St. Louis University employees led to the disclosure of the personal health information of approximately 3,000 people.
  5. During a routine internal audit Aug. 8, officials at Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health discovered 1,310 patients' health information had been transmitted via unsecured email.
  6. Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health announced a data breach affecting up to 1,800 patients.
  7. St. Mary's Janesville (Wis.) Hospital began alerting 629 patients who visited the hospital's emergency department between Jan. 1 and Aug. 26 of a possible data breach.
  8. Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System, based in San Jose, Calif., sent letters to patients affected by a recent data breach.
  9. Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., sent letters to 9,900 former patients informing them of a possible data breach.

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