Question

Find two examples of data/security breaches that resulted in theft/loss/exposure of confidential data, preferably health care related related data. Describe the incidents and explain what could have been done to prevent or mitigate them.

Answer 1

The security breach can happen when an outsider gains unauthorized access to organisations protected data

The examples of data/ security breaches that resulted in loss of confidential data are:

1. PIH health breach: February 2020 in California, it has announced that during phishing campaign 200000 current and former employees data was successfully targeted

2. Serrell dental breach : In October 2019 announced that 390000 patients were affected by ransomware and system intrusion, it was said that it took two weeks to rebuild the data.

The reason for security breach is the hackers can sell the information in black market, and they also can use it to purchase medical equipment and drugs and to claim false insurance

prevention of security breaches:

The incidents such as hacking and using unauthorized account access can lose the health data as well as the trust of patients.

The constant approaches for evaluation of security practices have become important to prevent possibility of breach.

By using strong security passwords like using uppercase and lowercase and frequently changing of passwords can reduce data thefts

The practices by the health organisation such as privileged access management and application control can minimize breach

The health record should have a feature of behaviour anomaly detection to identify the root cause of criminal activity

The health care team members should be trained regularly for security awareness of theft of information

United states has initiated acts like health insurance portability and accountability act and health information technology for economic and clinical health act, where breach affected people can report

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