It starts with an often-paralyzing attack on computer systems. Doctors scramble to notify patients awaiting surgery that their procedures have been delayed due to a ransomware attack.

Cross-State Impact: CommonSpirit Health Cyberattack and Patient Consequences

Sometimes a single cyberattack can impact hospitals across multiple states, as was the case when hackers targeted CommonSpirit Health in October 2022. Just one reported case of ransomware has allegedly led to the death of a patient. More often, patients' sensitive information is served up to a market of seedy individuals around the world ready to cash in on someone else's identity.

Healthcare institutions are among the most targeted businesses in the world, chiefly because they hold such sensitive information about the patients they serve. Hospitals, home health agencies, and other institutions store patients' phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, and other things that would allow any would-be criminal to pose as a patient and open new credit cards or bank accounts in their name.

Analysis of 2022 Healthcare Data Breaches Impacting Illinois Residents

Drata analyzed Department of Health and Human Services data to determine which healthcare data breaches reported in 2022 affected the most citizensin Illinois. Breaches that did not include locations were not included in this analysis.

Read on to see which institutions reported data breaches to the federal government in your state and explore the largest across the nation here.

LOOK: The Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches You Should Know About in Illinois

Was your hospital hit by hackers? Drata used U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services data to identify the top health care data breaches in Illinois last year.

 

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