Breach filing
ArchivedPraxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in NY): 54,165 individuals, Apr 2010.
Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in NY) reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 19 April 2010. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Connecticut and lists 54,165 individuals affected, which makes it the 18th largest of the 144 Connecticut filings on the register and the 13th largest of the 199 filings submitted nationally in 2010. Among the 6 Connecticut filings made in 2010 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
54,165
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$8.67M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in CT
18th
of 144 Connecticut filings
Rank in 2010
13th
of 199 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
- 54,165
- Breach submission date
- 19 April 2010
- Submission year
- 2010
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Connecticut (CT)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Connecticut by size
- 18th of 144
- Rank in 2010 nationally
- 13th of 199
- Connecticut median filing
- 5,000 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- CT-20100419-praxair-healthcare-services-home-care-su
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Connecticut and in 2010
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Theft is the type recorded on 16 of the 144 Connecticut filings (11%) and on 68% of all filings submitted in 2010. Laptop appears on 6% of Connecticut filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 35% of Connecticut filings do involve one. At 54,165 individuals the breach is 11 times the Connecticut median filing of 5,000 and 14 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.
Connecticut's breach notification statute (Conn. Gen. Stat. 36a-701b) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (no minimum resident threshold). 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 54,165 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 $8.67M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $10.4M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in NY). For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 1.6 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.
A laptop computer was stolen from the covered entity's office by a former employee after it had been damaged. The laptop computer contained the PHI of approximately 54,165 individuals. The computer contained a limited amount of PHI, including client names and one or more of the following: addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, insurance provider names and policy numbers, medical diagnostic codes or medical equipment. Following the breach, the covered entity notified all affected individuals, the media, and HHS of the breach. Additionally, the covered entity completed its laptop encryption project to cover all PHI stored on computers in the office. Additionally, OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity reinforcing the requirements of HIPAA to its employees.
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Section F.5 / Modelled cost
54,165 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$8.67M
54,165 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$10.4M
54,165 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in NY) 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
Connecticut statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Connecticut: Conn. Gen. Stat. 36a-701b
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 days after discovery
- Attorney general threshold
- All breaches (no minimum resident threshold) (No later than the time notice is provided to affected residents)
- Private right of action
- No: Non-compliance is an unfair trade practice; only the AG enforces
- Penalty
- Up to $5,000 per willful violation under CUTPA, plus injunctive relief and restitution
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
Connecticut filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Connecticut filings in 2010, topped up from other years where 2010 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaylord Hospital, IncOpen | Healthcare Provider | 62,232 | 28 Feb 2025 | |||
| Shoreline Eye Group | Healthcare Provider | 57,047 | 27 May 2022 | |||
| Tobin, Carberry, O'Malley, Riley & Selinger, P.C. | Business Associate | 47,106 | 17 Apr 2024 | |||
| VNA of Southeastern Ct. | Healthcare Provider | 12,000 | 11 Nov 2010 | |||
| Aetna | Health Plan | 6,372 | 27 Jul 2010 |
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 7114.
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