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The Power Law of Breaches
Most breaches are small, affecting hundreds or thousands. But a handful of catastrophic events account for the vast majority of individuals whose data has been exposed.
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Median Breach Size
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Mean Breach Size
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Largest Breach
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Mean/Median Ratio
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Breach Size Distribution (Log Scale)
Number of breaches by magnitude of individuals affected
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Concentration of Impact
A handful of mega-breaches eclipse thousands of smaller incidents
The mathematics of power-law distributions have profound implications for healthcare security strategy.
While organizations focus on preventing the typical breach, the aggregate impact is dominated by rare, catastrophic events.
The Change Healthcare breach alone (192.7M individuals) affected more people than the next 100 largest breaches combined.
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of individuals affected
from just the top 1% of breaches
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of individuals affected
from the top 10% of breaches
Top 10 Mega-Breaches
Hover over each breach for details from OCR investigation summaries
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