Millions impacted by data breaches at Blue Shield of California, mammography service and more

The article details widespread healthcare data exposures, most notably Blue Shield of California’s disclosure that Google Analytics was configured in a way that likely shared protected health information with Google Ads affecting 4.7 million members, and it catalogs dozens of other recent breaches—some claimed by ransomware groups—exposing hundreds of thousands of patients’ records and prompting regulatory scrutiny over web-tracking and third-party data sharing.