Part 2 Privacy and Security Breaches

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Manigault 1 Privacy and Security Breaches Identifying two articles for security and privacy breaches Amaya Manigault Department of informatics and Engineering systems, USC Upstate HIMS U413: Healthcare Tech & EHR Dr. Susan Richardson Assignment Due date: November 19, 2023
Manigault 2 McKeon, J. (2021, October 7). 3 Indiana Clinics Suffer Healthcare data breaches. HealthITSecurity. https://healthitsecurity.com/news/3-indiana-clinics-suffer-healthcare- data-breaches In this article, the author presents a security breach of three Indiana healthcare providers suffered unrelated healthcare data breaches recently, again signaling an increase in cyberattacks and data breaches across the nation. First sign of a security breach August had alerted patients and employees to the cyberattack, but at that time it was unclear whether any information was misused. Leading to the incident on October 1 that bad actors stole and posted patient information on the dark web. Impacted information included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, passport numbers, credit card numbers, and other financial and medical information. One strategy that would help with this security breach for Johnson Memorial Health would be Installing centralized firewalls. The installed centralized firewalls would help with keeping the personal information secured, completely blocking out the hackers. Another strategy would be to have encrypted transmission while having the systems down and disabled its entire network. This strategy would help the systems with their servers being encrypted would make it harder for hackers to gain access of the network they have. Alder, S. (2021, January 1). Largest Healthcare data breaches in 2020 - HIPAA Journal. The HIPAA Journal. https://www.hipaajournal.com/largest-healthcare-data-breaches-in-2020/ In this article, the author presents a privacy breach of a business associate of a HIPAA- covered entity. In 2020, a massive data breach was experienced by the cloud service provider Blackbaud Inc. Hackers gained access to its systems and stole customer fundraising databases before deploying ransomware. The threat was sent to Blackbaud
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