The sickening truth: Healthcare data breaches reach all-time high [Video]

If your healthcare data hasn’t been breached in 2024, then you either don’t know it yet or should consider yourself very lucky. 

That’s because 2024 was a nightmare year for healthcare institutions and patients in the U.S. A total of 184,111,469 records were breached. That’s 53% of the 2024 population of the United States. 

This staggering figure represents a significant increase from previous years, setting a new and alarming record in healthcare data breaches. 

The healthcare sector faced unprecedented challenges in cybersecurity, with attacks becoming more frequent, sophisticated and damaging than ever before.

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