Humboldt Independent Practice Association (Humboldt IPA): 26,353 individuals, Nov 2024.

OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in email. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 398 of the 776 California filings (51%) and on 83% of all filings submitted in 2024. Email appears on 20% of California filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 33% of California filings do involve one. At 26,353 individuals the breach is 7.4 times the California median filing of 3,553 and 6.6 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.

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 26,353 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 $4.22M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $5.06M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Humboldt Independent Practice Association (Humboldt IPA). For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.8 times the sector average.