medical data breach News

Two Indiana State Medical Association computer hard drives that have been stolen contain insurance information on 39,000 people, the doctors group said. One of its employees was transporting two archive backup hard drives to an offsite storage location when the …

Medical identity theft jumped 22 percent last year as more U.S. health data becomes electronic and easier for cyber criminals to steal from doctors’ offices, hospitals and insurers. Incidents of medical identity theft in 2014 saw almost 500,000 people fall …