As a consequence of those 110 breaches, more than 1.8 million records have been exposed this year.
Thus far, the biggest breach was announced by Centene, according to the report. The St. Louis-payer reported six missing hard drives containing the medical information of approximately 950,000 people. The payer later recovered the drives.
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