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Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymo

Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymore. (last time this was mainstream worthy was 200M leaked records in 2024). Last week https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthealth-data-breach/ https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthe... Week before that https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-patient-185826616.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-pati... 2 weeks before that: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-3-7m-patients-had-their-medical-records-stolen-in-data-breach/ar-AA2atIcb https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-...

Libcat99 18d ago
And it will remain this was as long as the consequences of not protecting our data remain trivial.
- paimapi 18d ago
  if only we prosecuted corporations as people instead of just giving them the civil liberties of one
dlcarrier 18d ago
In my experience, any industry following a security standard halts all effort at security once they're compliant with the standard. HIPAA sets a minimum but seems to also guarantee you will get exactly that minimum and nothing better.
- sidewndr46 18d ago
  The only thing HIPAA guarantees is that when your data is handed out, there was a policy around it.
  - suburban_strike 18d ago
    Not true, it makes investigating medical fraud almost impossible.