Security News > 2020 > February > Health Data Breach Tally Update: 2020 Trends
Hacking incidents involving email appear to be the most common type of major health data breach being reported to federal regulators so far in 2020.
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.
The biggest breach added to the tally involved the theft of an unencrypted laptop from GridWorks, a former medical transportation vendor of Health Share of Oregon.
Because business associates are implicated in so many large health data breaches - including the largest incident in 2019 - a hack on American Medical Collection Agency, which affected more than 20 million individuals - organizations need to be more proactive in managing the security risks posed by vendors, some experts note.
Some of these additional letters may duplicate some of last year's notifications, a Wise Health spokeswoman tells ISMG. Wise Health says it has submitted an updated breach report to HHS' Office for Civil Rights.
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