Number Of Data Breaches In 2024. In h1, 2024, 59% of data breaches occurred at healthcare providers, 39.5% at business associates, 9% at health plans, and 0.6% at healthcare clearinghouses. The average breach size in 2024 is 123,785 records and the median data breach size is 3,716 records.

The information breached may have included social security numbers, names, email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses, national public data states on its website. Last week’s staggering data breach at national public data put personal data, including the social security numbers, of billions of americans in the hands of cybercriminals.