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Filing FL-20250905-medical-associates-of-brevardHHS OCR Breach Register, Florida

Breach filing

Under investigation

Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC: 246,711 individuals, Sep 2025.

Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 5 September 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Florida and lists 246,711 individuals affected, which makes it the 35th largest of the 463 Florida filings on the register and the 42nd largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 54 Florida filings made in 2025 it ranks 6th.

Individuals affected

246,711

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$39.5M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in FL

35th

of 463 Florida filings

Rank in 2025

42nd

of 798 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
246,711
Breach submission date
5 September 2025
Submission year
2025
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Florida by size
35th of 463
Rank in 2025 nationally
42nd of 798
Florida median filing
4,912 individuals
Register id (derived)
FL-20250905-medical-associates-of-brevard

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Florida and in 2025

OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 256 of the 463 Florida filings (55%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 45% of Florida filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 25% of Florida filings do involve one. At 246,711 individuals the breach is 50 times the Florida median filing of 4,912 and 62 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

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.

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 246,711 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 $39.5M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $47.4M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

246,711 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$39.5M

246,711 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$47.4M

246,711 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Medical Associates of Brevard, LLC 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 2025, topped up from other years where 2025 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Zumpano Patricios, P.A.OpenBusiness Associate279,2753 Jul 2025
Outcomes One, Inc.Business Associate257,48123 Sep 2025
Ocuco IncBusiness Associate240,96130 May 2025
Modernizing Medicine, Inc.OpenBusiness Associate198,79517 Oct 2025

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-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 418.

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