2020 Witnessed a Massive Surge in Healthcare Breaches

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According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in early 2020, following the outbreak of COVID-19, a huge number of large healthcare data breaches registered — more than in any other year. The Tenable Research 2020 Threat Landscape Report reported that the largest data breach violated 22bn records of personal data in 2020 impacted the healthcare sector. An article made available HIPAA journal in January 2021 reported that: