Nearly 20 million patients have been affected by personal health information breaches this summer, with 8.8 million records breached in August alone, according to The Protenus Breach Barometer.
The August breach reporting follows an unheard of 11 million patient records breached in the month of June. The Protenus Healthcare Breach Barometer is a monthly snapshot of reported or disclosed breaches involving protected health information or medical/health information and is created in conjunction with DataBreaches.net.
As previously reported by Healthcare Informatics, following the staggering number of patient record breach reports in June, July’s total number of records breached—126,930—was back down to April’s levels.
