Majority of 2015 Healthcare Data Breaches are Due to IT Hacking – Topia Technology: Visibility and Data Security

The number of hacking incidents causing healthcare data breaches jumped from 53% in 2014 to 98% in 2015, this Redspin report shows.

This past year saw over one million patient health files breached through nearly 258 large-scale healthcare data breaches. According to Redspin’s recent Breach Report 2015: Protected Health Information (PHI), 98 percent of those breaches were caused by an IT hacking incident.