Breach Barometer

The numbers are in: 5.6M patient records breached in 2017

The Breach Barometer Annual Report analyzes…

84K patient records breached as patients remain hesitant to disclose sensitive medical information

Vulnerable populations included in the 157K breached patient records due to insider-error

Hacking incidents are quickly discovered while insiders go unnoticed

Hacking dominates breaches, but one insider breach took 14 years to discover

2017 on track to exceed 2016 trend of ‘one health data breach per day’

Several may health data breaches took 3+ years to discover

Reporting improvement: 66% of discovered health data breaches sent to HHS within 60-day window

March health data breaches: time to report improving, but time to discovery still troubling

Hacking incidents down, while some insider health data breaches took 5+ years to discover