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HIPAA Breach Report for August 2020

Hannah Trum August 12, 2020

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 July 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

Top Three Breach Types

Network Server breaches again ranked first with 948,858 people's PHI being breached
Email breaches came in second with 180,180 people having their PHI breached
Paper/Films breaches came in third with 80,928 people having their PHI breached

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence

Bar chart showing HIPAA breaches by attack vector in August 2020, with email leading at 14 breaches, followed by network server at 9 breaches.

The Most Common

Email took the top spot again as the most common breach type in this month's report with 14 reported breaches
Network Server came in a close second with 9 breaches
Other placed third with 4 reported breaches

Takeaways

Much like last month, there were more breaches attributed to email than a network server. The largest two data breaches of July 2020 however, were from a network server. The largest breach in July 2020 was by Florida Orthopaedic Institute and affected 640,000 individuals and the second largest was by Behavioral Health Network, Inc. and 129,571 individuals were affected.