Source: HIPAA Journal, Healthcare Data Breach Statistics (compiling HHS OCR data) · retrieved 2026-05-31
Discussed in: Chapter 9: Health Information Privacy and Security
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US healthcare records exposed in data breaches, by year
Number of healthcare records exposed in US data breaches reported to HHS OCR, compiled annually by HIPAA Journal. The 2024 total was dominated by the Change Healthcare breach, which alone affected an estimated 192 million people.