SC Media December 12, 2022
Ninety percent of 10 largest healthcare data breaches reported this year were caused by third-party vendors, much like in 2021. The fallout for many of these cyberattacks resulted in impacts for multiple connected providers, with two of these vendor incidents affecting hundreds of providers.
These incidents should serve as a warning to revisit third-party vendor relationships, ensure the entity is at least annually performing a review of vendors, and consider consolidating vendors where possible.
There are two points of clarification needed given the attention-grabbing Pixel reports over the last six months and multiple, weeks-long outages brought on by ransomware that did not make this list.
In calculating this list, SC Media listed the pixel incidents as single events because the...