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HIPAA Breach Report for January 2021

Hannah Trum January 11, 2021

HIPAA Breach Reports

The Paubox HIPAA Breach Report analyzes protected health information (PHI) breaches affecting 500 or more people as reported to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) in December 2020.

This report will cover:

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by People Affected
HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence
Takeaways
Full Data

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by People Affected

Bar chart of HIPAA breaches ranked by attack vector and people affected, showing network server and email as the top two vectors with over 2 million people affected each.

Top Three Breach Types

Network server breaches ranked first (as with previous months) with 2,043,297 people affected.
Email breaches ranked second with 2,032,868 people affected.
Paper/films ranked third with 19,281 people affected.

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence

The Most Common

Network server breaches are the most common vector type, with 17 breaches in December.
Email breaches are the second most common type. There were 14 email breaches in December.
Paper/films were the third most common type with 10 breaches.

Takeaways

As with last month, network server breaches are the top vector type and continue to affect the largest amount of people. MEDNAX Services, Inc. had the largest breach in December 2020. 1,290,670 people were affected via an email breach. Dental Care Alliance, LLC had the second-largest breach. 1,004,304 people were affected via a network server breach.