Healthcare data breaches have now affected almost 40 million individuals, according to statistics collected by the Department of Health and Human Services. The breaches have ranged from improperly disposed paperwork to sophisticated hackers stealing whole medical records and offering them for sale on the "dark" Internet.
"Offering credit monitoring to victims of a Protected Health Information data breach is ineffective and disingenuous, as it only monitors financial credit, and therefore can't detect further abuse of a victim's medical identity," said Meredith Phillips , chief privacy & information security officer at Henry Ford Health System .
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