Breach filing
ArchivedMagnolia Pediatrics: 12,861 individuals, Sep 2020.
Magnolia Pediatrics reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 23 September 2020. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Louisiana and lists 12,861 individuals affected, which makes it the 22nd largest of the 66 Louisiana filings on the register and the 232nd largest of the 663 filings submitted nationally in 2020. Among the 6 Louisiana filings made in 2020 it ranks 4th.
Individuals affected
12,861
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$2.06M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in LA
22nd
of 66 Louisiana filings
Rank in 2020
232nd
of 663 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
- 12,861
- Breach submission date
- 23 September 2020
- Submission year
- 2020
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Louisiana (LA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Louisiana by size
- 22nd of 66
- Rank in 2020 nationally
- 232nd of 663
- Louisiana median filing
- 6,909 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- LA-20200923-magnolia-pediatrics
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Louisiana and in 2020
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 41 of the 66 Louisiana filings (62%) and on 69% of all filings submitted in 2020. Network Server appears on 39% of Louisiana filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 32% of Louisiana filings do involve one. At 12,861 individuals the breach is 1.9 times the Louisiana median filing of 6,909 and 3.2 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.
Louisiana's breach notification statute (La. R.S. 51:3071 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 days from discovery. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches affecting Louisiana 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 12,861 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 $2.06M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.47M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Magnolia Pediatrics. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.4 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.
The covered entity (CE), Magnolia Pediatrics, reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 12,861 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, drivers' license numbers, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained it staff to better protect its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
12,861 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$2.06M
12,861 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.47M
12,861 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Magnolia Pediatrics 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
Louisiana statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Louisiana: La. R.S. 51:3071 et seq.
Database Security Breach Notification Law
- Notice to individuals
- In the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 days from discovery
- Attorney general threshold
- All breaches affecting Louisiana residents (Within 10 days of distributing notices to residents)
- Private right of action
- Limited: Civil action for actual damages from failure to give timely notice, not for the breach itself
- Penalty
- Unfair trade practice; up to $5,000 per violation per day for AG-notification failures
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
Louisiana filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Louisiana filings in 2020, topped up from other years where 2020 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana State University- Health Care Services Division | Healthcare Provider | 58,005 | 20 Nov 2020 | |||
| Our Lady of the Lake | Healthcare Provider | 31,166 | 14 Sep 2020 | |||
| Monroe Surgical Hospital, LLC | Healthcare Provider | 3,500 | 9 Dec 2020 | |||
| Provider Health Services | Healthcare Provider | 1,700 | 20 Oct 2020 |
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 3678.
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