We are getting close to finishing up a complete report on data breaches from the last 10 years. We started with a wide view and in our last few posts, we took a more focused view of the types and locations of breaches. In this post, we will look at the trends of the different types of breaches over time.

The image below is an overall view of the different types of breaches over the last 10 ...

Yesterday we talked about breaches from the perspective of the type of breach. Another dimension is the location of the data. Over the last 10 years, patient health information (PHI) has transitioned from paper files to servers and clouds. This is reflected in the breach reports.

In the first chart, we see that paper/films is the top location for data breaches, followed by network server ...

We have been putting together a report on healthcare data breaches by analyzing data from the Department of Health and Human Services breach portal. Our progress so far has included looking at the numbers from the perspective of geography, entity, and cost. In this post, we look at the breach types. It is common to think of a breach as just stealing PHI to be sold on the dark web. But there ...

We are taking a break from posting progress on our data breach report to discuss a security feature, password lockout. It is employed to discourage password guessing attacks. An added layer of security is good to protect against bad actors, but are there drawbacks?

Most of us have probably experienced this feature by forgetting our password. If you are unfamiliar, a password lockout allows ...

Our recent posts have been sections of a data breach report that we are preparing. Its purpose is to gain insight into the trends and implications of reported incidents over the last ten years. This is our fifth installment with a look at the financial cost of healthcare data breaches.

Data breaches are costly in every business sector worldwide, but when reviewing the information [gathered ...