HIPAA Breach Report for November 2019

The Paubox HIPAA Breach Report analyzes protected health information (PHI) breaches affecting 500 or more people as reported to the HHS. This report will cover:

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

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by People Affected

Top three breach types

• Email breaches ranked in first place with 267,307 people's protected health information affected.
• Other breaches ranked second with PHI of 105,495 people breached.
• Network Server breaches came in third with 54,611 people having their PHI breached.

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence

The most common

• Other took the top spot as the most common breach type in this month's report with 19 reported breaches.
• Email came in second with 13 breaches.
• Network Server and Paper/Films came in tied for third with 4 reported breaches each.

Takeaways

For the first time since we started the Paubox HIPAA Breach Report in July 2017, the Other category took the top spot for HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence. As we dug in further to the data, 15 of the 19 reported breaches were attributed to Texas Health Resources.

According to this article, an error within its billing system caused patient information to be mixed up in mailings across North Texas.

Email breach trend in 2019

Full data

Click here to view the raw data (Google Sheets).

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