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Email-Related Incidents Continue to Dominate, But Other Breaches Still Popping Up Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • February 19, 2020Hacking incidents involving email appear to be the most common type of major health data breach being reported to federal regulators so far in 2020. But the largest breach added to the tally involved a type of incident rarely seen in recent years: the theft of an unencrypted laptop.
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A snapshot Wednesday of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool shows that so far in 2020, 38 health data breaches affecting a total of about 1.1 million individuals have been added to the official tally.
Commonly called the "wall of shame," the website lists health data breaches affecting more than 500 individuals.
Since 2009, 3,102 breaches affecting a total of nearly 233.6 million individuals have been posted on the federal tally.
Of the incidents posted so far this year, 22 - or nearly 60 percent - were reported as hacking/IT incidents impacting a total of nearly 420,000 individuals. And 15 of those involved email-related incidents, such as phishing
But the biggest breach added to the tally involved the theft of an unencrypted laptop from GridWorks, a former medical transportation vendor of
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