More than half of Augusts breaches were caused by hacking incidents, while one insider hack went undetected for two years, according to the latest Protenus Breach Barometer.Healthcare is still struggling with two major threats: hacking and insider threats, according to the August Protenus Breach Barometer released on Wednesday.Protenus analyzed data compiled from the U.S. Department Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights breach reporting tool and research from DataBreaches.net.Since the start of 2017, the rate of breaches has steadily paced at about one breach a day — often more. August followed that trend with 33 breach incidents. For 31 of the breaches for which the researchers had data, 673,934 patient records were compromised.

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