43% Of Personal Information Exposures Due To Medical Record Breaches

About 43% of personal information exposures during calendar year 2013, were due to medical or health care record privacy breaches. During the 12-month period, there were 614 data breaches affecting 91.9 million records. There were 269 health information privacy breaches, affecting 8.8 million records. A breach is any event in which an individual is at risk of identity theft because the individual’s name, plus another type of personal identification are exposed in electronic or paper format. About 12% of breaches are in paper format. Breaches can expose Social Security numbers (SSN), driver’s license numbers, health . . .