HIPAA Journal October 5, 2023
Insider threats to healthcare records can be attributable to a number of motivations, vulnerabilities, and opportunities, or a combination of all three. To maintain the privacy and security of healthcare records, covered entities, and business associates must minimize the motivations, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for insider threats to healthcare records to a reasonable and appropriate level.
Between November 2021 and October 2022, approximately 19% of all data breaches were attributable to internal actors according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2023. However, when data breaches in the healthcare sector were analyzed separately, the percentage of data breaches attributable to internal actors increased to approximately 35%.
The Verizon Report notes a number of the data breaches attributed to internal actors in...
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