Healthcare data breaches affect millions.

A security roundup reports multiple large healthcare data breaches (Blue Shield of California: ~4.7M, Yale New Haven Health: ~5.5M, Frederick Health: ~1M), record $16.6B reported losses to cybercrime in 2024, and Verizon’s DBIR findings of rising third-party breaches, vulnerability exploitation, and ransomware activity; Proofpoint documents state-sponsored adoption of the ClickFix command-paste malware delivery technique, and Dutch authorities report Russian state-backed targeting of critical infrastructure, while law enforcement charged a suspected operator of the Nemesis darknet marketplace.