Government Report Finds Healthcare Privacy Breaches Rampant

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Over 40% of federal health insurance contractors and state Medicaid agencies reported experiencing a privacy breach involving personal health information in the past two years, according to a Government Accounting Office (GAO) report released on Tuesday.

The contractors and agencies collectively have access to medical data covering more than 100 million Americans, the report says.

So far so good at the City of Austin! Also, there is a downloadable and machine readable (CSV format) of Attrition.org's database of data loss incidents. They've been tracking incidents since 2000 and there are currently 142 million records compromised from over 300 events over the last 6 years. Fascinating stuff...