World's greatest healthcare system for patients or world's greatest healthcare system for hackers looking to steal data?
The list of healthcare sector clients reporting large health data breaches from the 2024 hack on debt collection firm Nationwide Recovery Service continues to grow, as does the number of affected patients throughout the United States.
As of mid-May, it appeared that more than 300,000 patients had been affected by NRS' hack based on breach reports submitted by NRS clients (see: Debt Collector Hack Affects Long List of Clients, Patients).
Breaches stemming from the NRS hack is of course among a long and growing list of other major health data breached reported so far this year involving business associates that handle large volumes of protected health information.
With the year nearly half over, the HHS OCR website as of Wednesday shows a total of 336 reported major health data breaches affecting nearly 29.2 million people so far in 2025.
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/nationwide-recovery-services-hack-grows-to-500000-victims-a-28835
Sounds like our healthcare system needs to have a little less data on our social security numbers and bank information and maybe a little more data on treating and curing diseases, yeah?
Our data is not safe in the healthcare system.