Breach filing
ArchivedSalina Family Healthcare Center: 77,337 individuals, Aug 2017.
Salina Family Healthcare Center reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 16 August 2017. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Kansas and lists 77,337 individuals affected, which makes it the 10th largest of the 80 Kansas filings on the register and the 14th largest of the 358 filings submitted nationally in 2017. Among the 3 Kansas filings made in 2017 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
77,337
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$12.4M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in KS
10th
of 80 Kansas filings
Rank in 2017
14th
of 358 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
- 77,337
- Breach submission date
- 16 August 2017
- Submission year
- 2017
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record, Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Kansas (KS)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Kansas by size
- 10th of 80
- Rank in 2017 nationally
- 14th of 358
- Kansas median filing
- 7,757 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- KS-20170816-salina-family-healthcare-center
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Kansas and in 2017
OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in a desktop computer, an electronic medical record system and a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 59 of the 80 Kansas filings (74%) and on 42% of all filings submitted in 2017. Desktop Computer appears on 8% of Kansas filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Kansas filings do involve one. At 77,337 individuals the breach is 10.0 times the Kansas median filing of 7,757 and 19 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.
Kansas's breach notification statute (K.S.A. 50-7a01 et seq.) 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 more than 1,000 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 77,337 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 $12.4M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $14.8M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Salina Family Healthcare Center. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 2.2 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 18, 2017, Salina Family Healthcare Center, the covered entity (CE), suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted some of its computer workstations and network servers, affecting approximately 77,337 individuals. The types of protected health information (PHI) involved included demographic, clinical, and health insurance information. In order to continue to see patients, the CE immediately restored its computers and servers from a recent backup. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals affected and the media. Following the breach, the CE engaged an independent computer forensics expert to determine how the incident occurred and if information had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. The CE improved safeguards by scanning its network for viruses, upgrading its servers to improve network security, and limiting internet access to minimize risk exposure. The CE also encouraged its employees to be vigilant when opening emails that come from unknown sources, provided additional network security training to its IT staff, and provided additional training on malware threats to all employees. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
77,337 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$12.4M
77,337 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$14.8M
77,337 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Salina Family Healthcare Center 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
Kansas statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Kansas: K.S.A. 50-7a01 et seq.
- Notice to individuals
- In the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- No general AG requirement (reporting agencies at more than 1,000 residents)
- Private right of action
- No: Only the Kansas Attorney General may enforce
- Penalty
- Deceptive trade practice; up to $10,000 per violation (up to $20,000 for willful order violations)
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
Kansas filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Kansas filings in 2017, topped up from other years where 2017 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Kansas Mental Health CenterOpen | Healthcare Provider | 80,860 | 25 Nov 2025 | |||
| Aria Care Partners | Healthcare Provider | 77,405 | 11 Jul 2023 | |||
| Valley Hope Association | Healthcare Provider | 70,799 | 18 Jan 2019 | |||
| East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging | Business Associate | 8,750 | 31 Oct 2017 | |||
| Family Medicine East, Chartered | Healthcare Provider | 6,800 | 3 Feb 2017 |
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 5136.
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