Breach filing
ArchivedApria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach: 11,000 individuals, Aug 2012.
Apria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 15 August 2012. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in California and lists 11,000 individuals affected, which makes it the 241st largest of the 776 California filings on the register and the 35th largest of the 218 filings submitted nationally in 2012. Among the 31 California filings made in 2012 it ranks 8th.
Individuals affected
11,000
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.76M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in CA
241st
of 776 California filings
Rank in 2012
35th
of 218 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
- 11,000
- Breach submission date
- 15 August 2012
- Submission year
- 2012
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- California (CA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in California by size
- 241st of 776
- Rank in 2012 nationally
- 35th of 218
- California median filing
- 3,553 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- CA-20120815-apria-healthcare-privacy-manager-breach
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in California and in 2012
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Theft is the type recorded on 172 of the 776 California filings (22%) and on 61% of all filings submitted in 2012. Laptop appears on 9% of California filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 33% of California filings do involve one. At 11,000 individuals the breach is 3.1 times the California median filing of 3,553 and 2.8 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.
California's breach notification statute (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.82) requires notice to affected residents within 30 calendar days of discovery (effective 1 January 2026, SB 446). Its attorney general threshold: more than 500 California 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 11,000 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 $1.76M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.11M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Apria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach. 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 August 13, 2012, the covered entity (CE), Apria Healthcare, Inc., reported that an unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from a workforce member's locked vehicle. The laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 65,700 individuals. The PHI involved in the breach included names, addresses, birth dates, social security numbers, and isolated instances of driver's licenses, financial and medical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals and the media. The CE sanctioned the workforce member, encrypted all laptop and desktop computers, and retrained workforce members. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
11,000 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.76M
11,000 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.11M
11,000 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Apria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach 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
California statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
California: Cal. Civ. Code 1798.82
- Notice to individuals
- Within 30 calendar days of discovery (effective 1 January 2026, SB 446)
- Attorney general threshold
- More than 500 California residents (Within 15 calendar days after notifying affected consumers)
- Private right of action
- Yes: Under CCPA Civ. Code 1798.150 for breaches from failure to maintain reasonable security; $107-$799 per consumer per incident (CPI-adjusted from $100-$750, effective Jan 2025)
- Penalty
- CCPA civil penalties of $2,663 per violation, $7,988 per intentional violation (CPI-adjusted, effective Jan 2025); CCPA private right of action for security-failure breaches
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
California filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among California filings in 2012, topped up from other years where 2012 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Health System | Healthcare Provider | 12,234 | 15 Feb 2012 | |||
| Delta Dental of California | Health Plan | 11,646 | 19 Jan 2012 | |||
| Desert AIDS Project | Healthcare Provider | 4,400 | 20 Apr 2012 | |||
| St. Mary Medical Center | Healthcare Provider | 3,900 | 14 May 2012 |
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 6626.
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