Healthcare Data Breaches in 2022

[dcontesti]

Interesting article on the largest Healthcare data breaches in 2022.  The article states that 90% of the breaches were caused as a result of third-party vendors.

https://www.scmagazine.com/feature/breach/most-of-the-10-largest-healthcare-data-breaches-in-2022-ar...

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[denbesten]

"9 of the 10 largest breaches were caused by 3rd party vendors" seems like a preordained outcome.  3rd-party-vendor breaches will inherently impact more people because they serve the population of multiple companies.  There are ~4000 annually reported breaches. Even if 3rd-partiies were 90% less likely to have a breach, their small portion would float to the top and dominate the "largest".

[shavonne64]

Hello

1H 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report. Largest Healthcare Data Breaches in 1H 2022. 1H 2022 Healthcare Data Breaches of 500 or More Records. In 1H 2022, 20,191,930 records were breached – 26.84% fewer than the 27,600,651 records breached in 1H 2021 and 9.2% fewer than the 22,239,769 records breached in 2H 2021. There were 31 reported breaches of 10,000 or more healthcare records in June – the same number as May 2022 – two of which affected more than 1.2 million individuals.

The high number of breaches involving EHRs is due to the ransomware attack on Eye Care Leaders, which provides electronic medical record systems to eye care providers. Healthcare providers were the worst affected HIPAA-covered entity in June, accounting for 55 data breaches of 500 or more records, with 4 data breaches reported by health plans.

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