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HIPAA Breach Report for February 2021

Hannah Trum February 8, 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 January 2021.

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 showing HIPAA breaches ranked by attack vector, with network server breaches affecting 646,874 people, email 248,163, and other vectors significantly fewer

Top Three Breach Types

Network server breaches ranked first (as it has for many months) with 646,874 people affected.
Email breaches ranked second with 248,163 people affected.
Paper/films ranked third with 15,316 people affected.

HIPAA Breaches Ranked by Occurrence

The Most Common

Email breaches were the most common vector type, with 12 breaches in January.
Network server breaches were the second most common with 7 total breaches last month.
Paper/films had 3 breaches in January and were the third most common breach type.

Takeaways

As we have seen in many previous months, data breaches via networker servers continue to affect the most people, and email breaches continue to be a common attack vector. Hendrick Health had the largest breach in January 2021 with 640,436 people affected via a network server. Roper St. Francis Healthcare had the second-largest breach with 189,761 people affected via email.