Trends In Healthcare Data Breach Statistics
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Summary & scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol (Drill-Down Score) — not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Dental practices and DSOs handling electronic health records now face a sustained rise in large-scale healthcare data breaches, increasing the likelihood of OCR investigations, breach-notification costs, and potential HIPAA penalties for any practice with 500 or more patients.
Key points
- HHS Office for Civil Rights reported 772 large healthcare data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals in 2025, setting a new annual record.
- The Change Healthcare ransomware attack in 2024 exposed the protected health information of 192.7 million individuals, surpassing the prior record of 78.8 million set by Anthem Inc. in 2015.
- Conduent Business Services, a HIPAA business associate, disclosed a breach in 2025 affecting more than 62 million Americans, the third-largest incident on record.
- From January 1, 2026 to April 30, 2026, OCR logged 252 large breaches, 9.5% fewer than the same period in 2025, though portal updates remain delayed following the 43-day government shutdown from October 1 to November 12, 2025.
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