Health Data Breach Tally Crowded With Vendor Incidents

From govinfosecurity.com

Health Data Breach Tally Crowded With Vendor Incidents

Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years.

The largest breach added so far in 2021 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website – which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals – is a vendor hacking incident reported on Jan. 29 by Florida Healthy Kids Corp., a provider of children’s’ health and dental health plans in Florida.

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