Data Breach 2024. In h1, 2024, 59% of data breaches occurred at healthcare providers, 39.5% at business associates, 9% at health plans, and 0.6% at healthcare clearinghouses. Cyberattacks and data breaches during the first half of 2024 have included the ransomware attacks against change healthcare and cdk, as well as data theft and extortion.

Security researchers have discovered a massive data breach containing more than 26 billion records — a hacker’s trove of records compiled from linkedin, twitter, adobe, and thousands of other organizations. National public data, which aggregates data to provide background checks, has confirmed it suffered a massive data breach involving social security numbers and other personal data on millions.