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Filing ME-20260727-cornerstone-behavioral-healthcareHHS OCR Breach Register, Maine

Breach filing

Under investigation

Cornerstone Behavioral Healthcare: 14,830 individuals, Jul 2026.

Cornerstone Behavioral Healthcare reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 27 July 2026. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Maine and lists 14,830 individuals affected, which makes it the 12th largest of the 39 Maine filings on the register and the 128th largest of the 478 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 7 Maine filings made in 2026 it ranks 2nd.

Individuals affected

14,830

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$2.37M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in ME

12th

of 39 Maine filings

Rank in 2026

128th

of 478 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
14,830
Breach submission date
27 July 2026
Submission year
2026
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Maine by size
12th of 39
Rank in 2026 nationally
128th of 478
Maine median filing
4,500 individuals
Register id (derived)
ME-20260727-cornerstone-behavioral-healthcare

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Maine 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 32 of the 39 Maine filings (82%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Network Server is the most common location in the state, appearing on 64% of Maine filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Maine filings do involve one. At 14,830 individuals the breach is 3.3 times the Maine median filing of 4,500 and 3.7 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,927 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,950 filings.

As of 10 September 2026 the case is listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation. OCR has not published a closing summary, so this page is limited to the fields on the filing itself; the archive entry that follows a closed investigation usually adds a short account of what was exposed and what the entity did afterwards.

Maine's breach notification statute (10 M.R.S. 1346 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents as expediently as possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 30 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (no minimum resident threshold). 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 14,830 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 $2.37M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.85M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Cornerstone Behavioral Healthcare. 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.5 / Modelled cost

14,830 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$2.37M

14,830 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$2.85M

14,830 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Cornerstone Behavioral Healthcare 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

Maine statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Maine: 10 M.R.S. 1346 et seq.

Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act

Notice to individuals
As expediently as possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 30 days after discovery
Attorney general threshold
All breaches (no minimum resident threshold) (Within the same 30-day window)
Private right of action
No: No express PROA; claims may run through the Unfair Trade Practices Act
Penalty
Up to $500 per violation, capped at $2,500 per day; equitable relief available

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

Maine filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Maine 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 entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Penobscot Valley HospitalOpenHealthcare Provider33,10728 Mar 2026
The Center for Advanced Eye CareOpenHealthcare Provider9,30020 Feb 2026
Gardiner Family Chiropractic, PCOpenHealthcare Provider5,00014 Aug 2026

Index / Companion schedules

Provenance

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-09-10. 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 10 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-under-investigation__2026-09-10.csv, export row 39.

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