Of the 619 data breaches recorded by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) in 2013, 43 percent (267 breaches) occurred in the healthcare sector.
Of the 619 data breaches recorded by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) in 2013, 43 percent (267 breaches) occurred in the healthcare sector.
For the first time since 2005, when IRTC first began tracking data breaches, the healthcare sector had more breaches than the business sector (210). IRTC reported that with more and more breaches being reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the number of breaches in healthcare comes as no surprise to them.
