Denver Health Medical Plan Discloses Vendor Breach Affecting 238K Members
Denver Health Medical Plan has notified over 238,000 members that their data was exposed through a breach at a third-party vendor. The incident adds to a pattern of healthcare data breaches originating outside the covered entity itself.
Why this matters: When your health plan gets breached, it is bad. When a vendor you have never heard of gets breached and takes your health data with it, that is a different problem. You had no relationship with that vendor. You had no way to evaluate their security. You had no choice in the matter. Healthcare organizations outsource constantly, and every vendor in that chain is another door into your most sensitive records. The liability tends to stay with the plan. The risk travels everywhere.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators · Healthcare professionals · Compliance
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