Breach filing
ArchivedAdult Internal Medicine of North Scottsdale: 11,798 individuals, Sep 2017.
Adult Internal Medicine of North Scottsdale reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 1 September 2017. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Arizona and lists 11,798 individuals affected, which makes it the 44th largest of the 164 Arizona filings on the register and the 74th largest of the 358 filings submitted nationally in 2017. Among the 8 Arizona filings made in 2017 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
11,798
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.89M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in AZ
44th
of 164 Arizona filings
Rank in 2017
74th
of 358 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
- 11,798
- Breach submission date
- 1 September 2017
- Submission year
- 2017
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Arizona (AZ)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Arizona by size
- 44th of 164
- Rank in 2017 nationally
- 74th of 358
- Arizona median filing
- 3,146 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- AZ-20170901-adult-internal-medicine-of-north-scottsd
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Arizona and in 2017
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 94 of the 164 Arizona filings (57%) and on 42% of all filings submitted in 2017. Network Server appears on 43% of Arizona filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Arizona filings do involve one. At 11,798 individuals the breach is 3.8 times the Arizona median filing of 3,146 and 2.9 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,938 filings.
As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.
Arizona's breach notification statute (A.R.S. 18-551, 18-552) requires notice to affected residents within 45 days after determining a breach occurred. Its attorney general threshold: more than 1,000 Arizona residents (AG and Dept. of Homeland Security). 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 11,798 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 $1.89M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.27M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Adult Internal Medicine of North Scottsdale. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.3 times the sector average.
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.
On July 5, 2017, a third party, identified as an online reporter, contacted the covered entity (CE), Adult Internal Medicine of North Scottsdale, claiming to have received demographic information for ten (10) patients from a computer hacker. While the CE was provided information that only 10 patients' protected health information (PHI) had been breached, in an abundance of caution, the CE provided breach notification to all 11,778 patients and provided free credit monitoring. It also notified HHS and the media. The breached PHI included patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers. The CE hired a cybersecurity contractor to provide 24/7 monitoring of its information technology system for unusual activity and implemented appropriate safeguards. OCR provided substantial technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
11,798 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.89M
11,798 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.27M
11,798 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Adult Internal Medicine of North Scottsdale 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
Arizona statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Arizona: A.R.S. 18-551, 18-552
- Notice to individuals
- Within 45 days after determining a breach occurred
- Attorney general threshold
- More than 1,000 Arizona residents (AG and Dept. of Homeland Security) (Within the same 45-day window)
- Private right of action
- No: Only the Arizona Attorney General may enforce
- Penalty
- Up to $10,000 per affected individual, capped at $500,000 per breach, under the Consumer Fraud Act
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
Arizona filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Arizona filings in 2017, topped up from other years where 2017 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francisco Jaume, D.O. | Healthcare Provider | 14,236 | 4 Oct 2016 | |||
| PRN Medical Services, LLC dba Symbius Medical, LLC | Healthcare Provider | 13,877 | 29 Jul 2014 | |||
| St. Marys NDS LLC | Business Associate | 11,715 | 6 Feb 2025 | |||
| Northwest Rheumatology | Healthcare Provider | 7,468 | 31 Jul 2017 | |||
| Saliba's Extended Care Pharmacy | Healthcare Provider | 6,599 | 3 Mar 2017 |
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 2026-08-28. 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 28 August 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__2026-08-28.csv, export row 5120.
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