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The Healthcare Data Breach Escalation
725 healthcare data breaches in 2024 affecting 275 million records (HHS OCR). That figure — 275 million people's protected health information exposed in a single year — exceeds the entire US population.
The cost follows the scale: $10.22 million is the average cost of a healthcare data breach — the highest of any industry for the fifteenth consecutive year (IBM Cost of Data Breach 2025). And **50% of healthcare data breaches involve business as...