Breach filing
ArchivedBoundary Regional Community Health Center dba Kaniksu Community Health: 88,000 individuals, Jul 2026.
Boundary Regional Community Health Center dba Kaniksu Community Health reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 21 July 2026. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Idaho and lists 88,000 individuals affected, which makes it the 5th largest of the 32 Idaho filings on the register and the 49th largest of the 518 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 7 Idaho filings made in 2026 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
88,000
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$14.1M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in ID
5th
of 32 Idaho filings
Rank in 2026
49th
of 518 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
- 88,000
- Breach submission date
- 21 July 2026
- Submission year
- 2026
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- Idaho (ID)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Idaho by size
- 5th of 32
- Rank in 2026 nationally
- 49th of 518
- Idaho median filing
- 5,606 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- ID-20260721-boundary-regional-community-health-cente
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Idaho and in 2026
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 23 of the 32 Idaho filings (72%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Network Server appears on 41% of Idaho filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 28% of Idaho filings. At 88,000 individuals the breach is 16 times the Idaho median filing of 5,606 and 22 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,967 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,958 filings.
As of 24 September 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. The archive entry carries no closing summary.
Idaho's breach notification statute (Idaho Code 28-51-104 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents as soon as possible, without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: government agencies only (no requirement for commercial entities). 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 88,000 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 $14.1M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $16.9M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Boundary Regional Community Health Center dba Kaniksu Community Health. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 2.5 times the sector average.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
88,000 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$14.1M
88,000 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$16.9M
88,000 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Boundary Regional Community Health Center dba Kaniksu Community Health 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
Idaho statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Idaho: Idaho Code 28-51-104 et seq.
- Notice to individuals
- As soon as possible, without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- Government agencies only (no requirement for commercial entities) (Government agencies: within 24 hours of discovery)
- Private right of action
- No: No direct individual lawsuits; AG and primary regulators enforce
- Penalty
- Up to $25,000 per breach for intentional failure to notify
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
Idaho filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Idaho filings in 2026, topped up from other years where 2026 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Alphonsus Health System | Healthcare Provider | 134,906 | 4 Mar 2021 | |||
| NS Support, LLC | Healthcare Provider | 92,845 | 21 Nov 2025 | |||
| IEC Group, Inc. dba AmeriBen | Business Associate | 74,884 | 24 Aug 2023 | |||
| Lakeside Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, PLLCOpen | Healthcare Provider | 34,154 | 27 Feb 2026 | |||
| Minidoka Memorial HospitalOpen | Healthcare Provider | 22,000 | 4 Jun 2026 |
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 2026-09-24. 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 24 September 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__2026-09-24.csv, export row 5.
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