As of Tuesday, 171 major health data breaches affecting a combined total of nearly 3.6 million individuals have been added to the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website. Phishing scams continue to be a leading cause of health data breach so far this year. But the theft of unencrypted laptops led to the biggest breach reported in 2020, and an insider breach involving a physician exposed data on thousands of patients. The largest such breach, an insider incident at Arizona Endocrinology Center affected 74,000 individuals.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/health-data-breach-update-what-are-causes-a-14269