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HIPAA Breach Report for September 2019

Picture of Hoala Greevy Hoala Greevy September 9, 2019

HIPAA Breach Reports

The Paubox HIPAA Breach Report analyzes protected health information (PHI) breaches affecting 500 or more people as reported to the HHS in August 2019.

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 by attack vector, showing email as the largest breach type with 299,270 people affected

Top Three Breach Types

Email breaches ranked in first place with 299,270 people's PHI affected.
Other breaches ranked second with PHI of 148,715 people breached.
Electronic Medical Record breaches came in third with 107,180 people having their PHI breached.

Bottom Three Breach Types

Desktop Computer ranked as the lowest number of people's PHI being breached with 4,151 breaches.
Laptop was the second lowest type of breach as ranked by people affected with 7,358.
Paper/Films was the third lowest type of breach as ranked by people affected with 34,875.

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence

The Most Common

Email retained the top spot as the most common breach type in this month's report with 18 reported breaches.
Network Server came in second with 7 breaches.
Paper/Films and Electronic Medical Record came in tied for third with 5 reported breaches each.

Takeaways

Email took top spots in both categories for this month's HIPAA Breach Report. In fact, Email has ranked first in the HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence category for 14 of the past 17 months.