HCA Healthcare Admits Massive Data Breach

Eleven million Americans in twenty states, whose only desire was to take care of their health, have now had their data leaked by the facility they trusted with that data; their hospital.

HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) announced that on July 5th, they learned of a data breach. On July 10th, HCA made the public announcement of the “data security incident”, and since then millions of HCA patients have been receiving emails informing them in a very businesslike way, that their personal data is now likely on the dark web, being traded about like cigarettes in prison (but we don’t…