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Filing AR-20250801-highlands-oncology-group-paHHS OCR Breach Register, Arkansas

Breach filing

Under investigation

Highlands Oncology Group PA: 111,766 individuals, Aug 2025.

Highlands Oncology Group PA reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 1 August 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Arkansas and lists 111,766 individuals affected, which makes it the 6th largest of the 92 Arkansas filings on the register and the 82nd largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 8 Arkansas filings made in 2025 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

111,766

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$17.9M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in AR

6th

of 92 Arkansas filings

Rank in 2025

82nd

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
111,766
Breach submission date
1 August 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 Arkansas by size
6th of 92
Rank in 2025 nationally
82nd of 798
Arkansas median filing
4,800 individuals
Register id (derived)
AR-20250801-highlands-oncology-group-pa

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Arkansas 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 50 of the 92 Arkansas filings (54%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 49% of Arkansas filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 28% of Arkansas filings do involve one. At 111,766 individuals the breach is 23 times the Arkansas median filing of 4,800 and 28 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

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.

Arkansas's breach notification statute (Ark. Code Ann. 4-110-101 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time and manner possible and without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: more than 1,000 Arkansas 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 111,766 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 $17.9M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $21.5M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Highlands Oncology Group PA. 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.5 / Modelled cost

111,766 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$17.9M

111,766 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$21.5M

111,766 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Highlands Oncology Group PA 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

Arkansas statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Arkansas: Ark. Code Ann. 4-110-101 et seq.

Personal Information Protection Act

Notice to individuals
In the most expedient time and manner possible and without unreasonable delay
Attorney general threshold
More than 1,000 Arkansas residents (At the time of individual notice or within 45 days of a harm determination, whichever is first)
Private right of action
No: No express private right of action under PIPA
Penalty
Up to $10,000 per violation under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act; willful violations are a misdemeanor

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

Arkansas filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Arkansas 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
MedEvolveBusiness Associate205,43410 Jul 2018
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery CenterHealthcare Provider128,00024 Sep 2017
Mainline Health Systems IncOpenHealthcare Provider101,10423 Jun 2025
Walmart Associates Health and Welfare PlanHealth Plan85,9524 Oct 2023
Cabot Medical CareHealthcare Provider21,46710 Apr 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 463.

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