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Filing FL-20121129-advanced-data-processingHHS OCR Breach Register, Florida

Breach filing

Archived

Advanced Data Processing, Inc.: 10,000 individuals, Nov 2012.

Advanced Data Processing, Inc. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 29 November 2012. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare clearinghouse in Florida and lists 10,000 individuals affected, which makes it the 178th largest of the 463 Florida filings on the register and the 38th largest of the 218 filings submitted nationally in 2012. Among the 15 Florida filings made in 2012 it ranks 4th.

Individuals affected

10,000

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$1.60M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in FL

178th

of 463 Florida filings

Rank in 2012

38th

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 Clearing House
Individuals affected
10,000
Breach submission date
29 November 2012
Submission year
2012
Type of breach
Theft
Location of breached information
Desktop Computer
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
Rank in Florida by size
178th of 463
Rank in 2012 nationally
38th of 218
Florida median filing
4,912 individuals
Register id (derived)
FL-20121129-advanced-data-processing

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Florida and in 2012

OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a desktop computer. Theft is the type recorded on 68 of the 463 Florida filings (15%) and on 61% of all filings submitted in 2012. Desktop Computer appears on 6% of Florida filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 25% of Florida filings do involve one. At 10,000 individuals the breach is 2.0 times the Florida median filing of 4,912 and 2.5 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.

Florida's breach notification statute (Fla. Stat. 501.171) requires notice to affected residents within 30 days of determining a breach occurred (up to 15-day extension for good cause). Its attorney general threshold: 500 or more Florida 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 10,000 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 $1.60M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $1.92M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Advanced Data Processing, Inc.. 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 or around June 15, 2012, an employee of the covered entity (CE), Advanced Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), dba Intermedix, who had access to patients' protected health information (PHI) as part of her job, inappropriately accessed the PHI of approximately 10,000 individuals and sold the information to third parties. An addendum to the initial breach report, submitted on April 3, 2015, expanded the breach to an additional 2,360 individuals. The PHI involved in the breach included patient names, social security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, claims, and other financial information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and posted substitute notice. Following the breach, the CE engaged a third party to review its network environment and make recommendations for security enhancements. It implemented data loss prevention technology to identify electronic PHI and block transmittal of sensitive information and a log management and analysis solution to automate collection, analysis, archival and recovery of log data. The CE implemented policies and procedures for disposal and reuse of mobile devices, as well as for the secure transport of sensitive information to, from, and between data centers. The CE also created an information security team and appointed a committee to address compliance. Additionally, the CE improved its employee training program and launched a vendor management program to ensure the safeguarding of ePHI by its business associates. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the correction actions listed above. The CE also initiated upgrades to its data center security and workstation antivirus technology.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

10,000 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$1.60M

10,000 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$1.92M

10,000 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Advanced Data Processing, Inc. 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

Florida statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Florida: Fla. Stat. 501.171

Florida Information Protection Act (FIPA)

Notice to individuals
Within 30 days of determining a breach occurred (up to 15-day extension for good cause)
Attorney general threshold
500 or more Florida residents (Within 30 days of the breach determination)
Private right of action
No: FIPA does not permit direct individual lawsuits; AG enforcement only
Penalty
Escalating civil penalties up to $500,000 per breach; also an unfair or deceptive trade practice

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

Florida filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Florida 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 entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
University of MiamiHealthcare Provider64,8467 Sep 2012
Gulf Coast Health Care Services IncHealthcare Provider13,00015 Oct 2012
Memorial Healthcare SystemHealth Plan9,49713 Apr 2012
Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.Healthcare Provider4,9077 Dec 2012

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-archive__2026-08-28.csv, export row 6570.

Corrections: if you represent a listed entity and the portal row has been amended, email [email protected] with the portal entry and we will re-pull the export.