breach

Healthcare ransomware attacks affected 93% of organizations in 2024-2025, with Ascension's $1.8B loss and 5.6M affected patients illustrating the sector's vulnerability. HIPAA Security Rule update pending.

A breach at obscure data broker National Public Data exposed 2.9 billion records containing Social Security numbers for an estimated 170 million Americans, highlighting the unregulated data broker industry and its security failures.