Breach filing
Archived24 ON Physicians PC: 10,104 individuals, Aug 2014.
24 ON Physicians PC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 15 August 2014. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in Georgia and lists 10,104 individuals affected, which makes it the 95th largest of the 226 Georgia filings on the register and the 73rd largest of the 314 filings submitted nationally in 2014. Among the 15 Georgia filings made in 2014 it ranks 2nd.
Individuals affected
10,104
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.62M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in GA
95th
of 226 Georgia filings
Rank in 2014
73rd
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
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 10,104
- Breach submission date
- 15 August 2014
- Submission year
- 2014
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Georgia (GA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Georgia by size
- 95th of 226
- Rank in 2014 nationally
- 73rd of 314
- Georgia median filing
- 5,232 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- GA-20140815-24-on-physicians-pc
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Georgia and in 2014
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 143 of the 226 Georgia filings (63%) and on 12% of all filings submitted in 2014. Network Server appears on 46% of Georgia filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 34% of Georgia filings do involve one. At 10,104 individuals the breach is 1.9 times the Georgia median filing of 5,232 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.
Georgia's breach notification statute (Ga. Code 10-1-912) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: no general AG requirement (reporting agencies at 10,000+ 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 10,104 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 $1.62M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $1.94M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by 24 ON Physicians PC. 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 June 10, 2014, 24 ON Physicians, the covered entity (CE), discovered that its business associate (BA), PST Services, hired an off-shore subcontractor GeBBS, which repurposed a computer server containing the protected health information (PHI) of 10,104 of the CE's patients. The re-use of server made the PHI potentially available over the Internet from December 1, 2013, to April 17, 2014. The PHI included patients' names, invoice numbers, procedure codes, charge amounts, balances due, policy numbers, billing-related status comments, and dates of service. In response to this breach, the CE ensured that the server was taken off-line and the PHI was destroyed. The subcontractor submitted documentation stating that all of the breached PHI was destroyed. The CE informed OCR that it no longer works with the subcontractor. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media. It also provided affected individuals with one year of free credit monitoring. The CE initiated a plan to work with its BAs to strengthen security protocols to prevent this type of breach from occurring in the future. OCR obtained assurances that the CE and BA implemented the corrective actions listed above..
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
10,104 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.62M
10,104 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$1.94M
10,104 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by 24 ON Physicians PC 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
Georgia statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Georgia: Ga. Code 10-1-912
Personal Identity Protection Act
- Notice to individuals
- In the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- No general AG requirement (reporting agencies at 10,000+ residents)
- Private right of action
- No: No direct individual lawsuits for notification failures
- Penalty
- No explicit statutory penalties; possible exposure under the Fair Business Practices Act
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
Georgia filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Georgia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | Healthcare Provider | 12,937 | 7 Jan 2014 | |||
| PST Services Inc, a McKesson Co. | Business Associate | 10,104 | 8 Aug 2014 | |||
| Bulloch Pediatric Group, LLC | Healthcare Provider | 10,000 | 4 Sep 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 6060.
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