Breach filing
ArchivedWYATT DENTAL GROUP, LLC: 10,271 individuals, Nov 2012.
WYATT DENTAL GROUP, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 5 November 2012. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Louisiana and lists 10,271 individuals affected, which makes it the 24th largest of the 66 Louisiana filings on the register and the 37th largest of the 218 filings submitted nationally in 2012. Among the 3 Louisiana filings made in 2012 it ranks 2nd.
Individuals affected
10,271
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.64M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in LA
24th
of 66 Louisiana filings
Rank in 2012
37th
of 218 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
- 10,271
- Breach submission date
- 5 November 2012
- Submission year
- 2012
- Type of breach
- Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of breached information
- Electronic Medical Record
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Louisiana (LA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Louisiana by size
- 24th of 66
- Rank in 2012 nationally
- 37th of 218
- Louisiana median filing
- 6,909 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- LA-20121105-wyatt-dental-group
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Louisiana and in 2012
OCR classifies the incident as theft and unauthorized access or disclosure, with the breached information held in an electronic medical record system. Theft is the type recorded on 11 of the 66 Louisiana filings (17%) and on 61% of all filings submitted in 2012. Electronic Medical Record appears on 11% of Louisiana filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 32% of Louisiana filings do involve one. At 10,271 individuals the breach is 1.5 times the Louisiana median filing of 6,909 and 2.6 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 10,271 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 $1.64M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $1.97M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by WYATT DENTAL GROUP, LLC. 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.
The Louisiana State Police and the FBI notified the covered entity (CE) that a former employee was involved in identify theft affecting the protected health information (PHI) of the CE's patients. Approximately 10,271 patients' PHI was involved in the breach; however, the CE's investigation concluded that after the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections investigation, only 10 patients were affected. The PHI involved in the breach included names, addresses, and social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and all patients whose names were included in their business associate's (BA) information system. To prevent a similar breach from happening in the future, the BA reviewed its system and assured the CE and OCR that its system was designed to comply with the regulations under HIPAA. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE provided OCR with a copy of its HIPAA policies and procedures.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
10,271 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.64M
10,271 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$1.97M
10,271 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by WYATT DENTAL GROUP, 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
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 2012, topped up from other years where 2012 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center | Healthcare Provider | 17,000 | 18 May 2012 | |||
| Magnolia Pediatrics | Healthcare Provider | 12,861 | 23 Sep 2020 | |||
| Magnolia Pediatrics | Healthcare Provider | 11,100 | 9 Oct 2019 | |||
| Cardiology Center of Acadiana | Healthcare Provider | 9,681 | 7 Apr 2017 | |||
| Ochsner Health System | Healthcare Provider | 2,088 | 20 Feb 2012 |
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 6585.
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