Breach filing
ArchivedREEVE-WOODS EYE CENTER: 30,000 individuals, Nov 2014.
REEVE-WOODS EYE CENTER reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 15 November 2014. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in California and lists 30,000 individuals affected, which makes it the 151st largest of the 776 California filings on the register and the 41st largest of the 314 filings submitted nationally in 2014. Among the 36 California filings made in 2014 it ranks 6th.
Individuals affected
30,000
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$4.80M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in CA
151st
of 776 California filings
Rank in 2014
41st
of 314 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
- 30,000
- Breach submission date
- 15 November 2014
- Submission year
- 2014
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- California (CA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in California by size
- 151st of 776
- Rank in 2014 nationally
- 41st of 314
- California median filing
- 3,553 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- CA-20141115-reeve-woods-eye-center
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in California and in 2014
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a network server. Theft is the type recorded on 172 of the 776 California filings (22%) and on 41% of all filings submitted in 2014. Network Server appears on 43% of California filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 33% of California filings do involve one. At 30,000 individuals the breach is 8.4 times the California median filing of 3,553 and 7.5 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 30,000 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 $4.80M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $5.76M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by REEVE-WOODS EYE CENTER. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.9 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.
OCR investigated the covered entity (CE), Reeve-Woods Eye Center, after the CE reported a breach of 43,000 individuals' electronic protected health information (ePHI) regarding malware that infiltrated its electronic network on, or around, August 1 through September 17, 2014. The malware caused, among other things, the system to disclose screenshots and keystrokes outside the CE's network. The types of ePHI involved in the breach included patients' names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of service, insurance information, diagnosis codes, treatment information, and medical histories. The CE informed and cooperated with the FBI regarding the incident. In response to OCR's contact in this matter, the CE ensured the proper breach notifications were provided, cleared the system of the malware, and took steps to increase its safeguards and technical security measures.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
30,000 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$4.80M
30,000 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$5.76M
30,000 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by REEVE-WOODS EYE CENTER 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 2014, topped up from other years where 2014 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Health System | Healthcare Provider | 33,136 | 10 Sep 2014 | |||
| Sony Pictures Entertainment Health and Welfare Benefits Plan (the Plan) | Health Plan | 30,000 | 12 Dec 2014 | |||
| Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego | Healthcare Provider | 14,121 | 24 Jun 2014 | |||
| Loi Luu | Healthcare Provider | 13,177 | 14 Nov 2014 |
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 5977.
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