# Changelog of HHS Data Breach Scraper (`automation-lab/hhs-data-breach-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/hhs-data-breach-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/hhs-data-breach-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-21

*Features*

- Added `submittedSince` and `minIndividualsAffected` filters for focused breach-monitoring workflows.
- Added a `maxPages` scan guardrail with page, candidate, and match metrics.

*Reliability*

- Transient HHS HTTP 429 and 5xx responses now retry with bounded backoff.
- Portal table changes now fail loudly instead of silently returning an empty dataset.

### 2026-06-21

*Features*

- Initial release for extracting public HIPAA breach report rows from the HHS OCR Breach Portal, with filters for breach attributes and structured output for compliance monitoring, research, and outreach workflows.