The number of patient records breached in healthcare organizations across the United States to date is about 200 million, which is staggeringly close to three-quarters of the entire insured population. The reasons for these breaches range from hacktivism to personal/criminal/political gain to militarism.
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) only started maintaining the breach list in July 2009. At a cost estimate of $400 per breached record in 2015, the total cost estimate of all breaches since 2009 is more than $75 billion.
