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Filing AZ-20250915-survival-flightHHS OCR Breach Register, Arizona

Breach filing

Under investigation

Survival Flight, Inc.: 97,217 individuals, Sep 2025.

Survival Flight, Inc. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 15 September 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Arizona and lists 97,217 individuals affected, which makes it the 17th largest of the 164 Arizona filings on the register and the 97th largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 17 Arizona filings made in 2025 it ranks 3rd.

Individuals affected

97,217

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$15.6M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in AZ

17th

of 164 Arizona filings

Rank in 2025

97th

of 798 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
97,217
Breach submission date
15 September 2025
Submission year
2025
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Arizona by size
17th of 164
Rank in 2025 nationally
97th of 798
Arizona median filing
3,146 individuals
Register id (derived)
AZ-20250915-survival-flight

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Arizona 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 94 of the 164 Arizona filings (57%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 43% of Arizona filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Arizona filings do involve one. At 97,217 individuals the breach is 31 times the Arizona median filing of 3,146 and 24 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 by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation. OCR has not published a closing summary, so this page is limited to the fields on the filing itself; the archive entry that follows a closed investigation usually adds a short account of what was exposed and what the entity did afterwards.

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 97,217 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 $15.6M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $18.7M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Survival Flight, Inc.. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 2.8 times the sector average.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

97,217 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$15.6M

97,217 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$18.7M

97,217 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Survival Flight, Inc. 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 2025, topped up from other years where 2025 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
SimonMed ImagingHealthcare Provider1,275,66927 Mar 2025
VectraRx Mail Pharmacy Services, LLCHealthcare Provider109,3836 Feb 2025
Primary Health-SMMPP, L.C.Business Associate67,5676 Feb 2025
Tri-City Cardiology Consultants, P.C.OpenHealthcare Provider22,7538 May 2025

Index / Companion schedules

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-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 410.

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