Breach filing
ArchivedMedical Associates of Brevard, LLC: 246,711 individuals, Sep 2025.
Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 5 September 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Florida and lists 246,711 individuals affected, which makes it the 35th largest of the 478 Florida filings on the register and the 44th largest of the 811 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 55 Florida filings made in 2025 it ranks 6th.
Individuals affected
246,711
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$39.5M
Upper bound, method shown
Rank in FL
35th
of 478 Florida filings
Rank in 2025
44th
of 811 filings nationally
Section F.1 / The filing
As posted by HHS OCR
Every value below is the portal's own field for this filing, plus its rank within the register.
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 246,711
- Breach submission date
- 5 September 2025
- Submission year
- 2025
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Florida (FL)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Florida by size
- 35th of 478
- Rank in 2025 nationally
- 44th of 811
- Florida median filing
- 5,000 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- FL-20250905-medical-associates-of-brevard
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Florida and in 2025
OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 269 of the 478 Florida filings (56%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 46% of Florida filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 26% of Florida filings do involve one. At 246,711 individuals the breach is 49 times the Florida median filing of 5,000 and 61 times the national median of 4,013 across all 8,092 filings. It is one of 825 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.
As of 12 November 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.
Florida's breach notification statute (Fla. Stat. 501.171) requires notice to affected residents within 30 days of determining a breach occurred (up to 15-day extension for good cause). Its attorney general threshold: 500 or more Florida residents. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule ran alongside it: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery, which is the clock that put this filing on the portal.
Multiplying 246,711 individuals by IBM's $160 customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025, the figure the site's calculator uses) gives a modelled $39.5M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $47.4M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.
Section F.3 / OCR closing summary
The portal's archived description, in full
Written by the Office for Civil Rights when the case was closed and reproduced verbatim from the HHS export.
Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC
OCR Transaction Number: 25-638948
The covered entity (CE), Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC, reported that it experienced a data breach affecting the electronic protected health information (PHI) of 246,711 individuals. The PHI involved included clinical, demographic, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals, implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
246,711 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
Upper boundIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$39.5M
246,711 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$47.4M
246,711 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC to HHS, multiplied by IBM's customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025 Figure 6 and the 2026 edition). No cost has been disclosed by the entity for this filing; the figure is a planning estimate, not a fact about the breach. IBM's per-record figures come from mid-volume breaches and IBM cautions against applying them to breaches involving millions of records; the site's per-record page explains where the multiplication holds and where it breaks down.
Context: IBM's average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M in the 2026 report ($7.42M in 2025); the global average across all sectors was $4.44M in 2025.
Cost per record: method and limits / Healthcare breach cost, IBM 2026
Section F.6 / Notification clock
Florida statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Florida: Fla. Stat. 501.171
Florida Information Protection Act (FIPA)
- Notice to individuals
- Within 30 days of determining a breach occurred (up to 15-day extension for good cause)
- Attorney general threshold
- 500 or more Florida residents (Within 30 days of the breach determination)
- Private right of action
- No: FIPA does not permit direct individual lawsuits; AG enforcement only
- Penalty
- Escalating civil penalties up to $500,000 per breach; also an unfair or deceptive trade practice
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule runs alongside the state statute: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.
Section F.7 / Peer filings
Florida filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Florida filings in 2025, topped up from other years where 2025 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zumpano Patricios, P.A.Open | Business Associate | 279,275 | 3 Jul 2025 | |||
| Outcomes One, Inc. | Business Associate | 257,481 | 23 Sep 2025 | |||
| Ocuco Inc | Business Associate | 240,961 | 30 May 2025 | |||
| Modernizing Medicine, Inc.Open | Business Associate | 198,795 | 17 Oct 2025 |
Index / Companion schedules
13 HHS breach register
→Hub: every filing, by state, year and entity.
04 Biggest breaches
→Mega-breaches with primary-source cost figures.
Industry / Healthcare
→IBM 2026: $6.64M average, 13 years at #1.
Regulation / HIPAA penalties
→OCR enforcement tiers and the 60-day rule.
11 50-state laws
→Deadline, AG threshold and penalties per state.
Cost / Per record
→Where the per-record model is reliable.
Provenance
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-11-12. Public domain. Individuals affected and dates as reported by the covered entity.
Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov breach report. Statutory basis: HITECH Act section 13402(e)(4): the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. Breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals are reported to OCR annually and are not posted, so they are not on this register. Status wording follows the portal's two tabs ("Cases Currently Under Investigation" and "Archive") as of 12 November 2026; a filing moves to the archive when OCR closes the case. Modelled costs on this site are a method applied to the reported count, using IBM Cost of a Data Breach per-record figures, and are never a cost disclosed by the entity. This row: hhs-breach-archive__2026-11-12.csv, export row 364.
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