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Health Data Breaches
Breaches of health information affecting 500+ people reported to HHS, trailing 12 months
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Continuation isn't available for All breaches: Last observation was 114 days ago — too stale to project.
Continuation isn't available for From hacking: Last observation was 114 days ago — too stale to project.
From the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal. Months publish after a reporting lag.
Reported breaches of patient data at hospitals, insurers and their contractors. Hacking has become the dominant cause.
What this chart reads
- Health Data Breaches Reported to HHS, 12 Monthsas “All breaches”behindlatest 2026-07-01
- Health Data Breaches from Hacking, 12 Months (HHS)as “From hacking”behindlatest 2026-07-01
Sources
Health Data Breaches Reported to HHS, 12 Months. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach), HIPAA breach reports, Under Investigation and Archive tabs combined, by breach submission date. Palanor reads both CSV exports every day. U.S. government work, public domain.
Health Data Breaches from Hacking, 12 Months (HHS). Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach), HIPAA breach reports, Under Investigation and Archive tabs combined, by breach submission date. Palanor reads both CSV exports every day. U.S. government work, public domain.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.