Form: Cost-of-Breach DisclosureSource: IBM Cost of a Data BreachFiled: 28 Apr 2026
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Filing MD-20250630-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-servicHHS OCR Breach Register, Maryland

Breach filing

Under investigation

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: 107,154 individuals, Jun 2025.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 30 June 2025. The filing records the organisation as a health plan in Maryland and lists 107,154 individuals affected, which makes it the 21st largest of the 170 Maryland filings on the register and the 87th largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 19 Maryland filings made in 2025 it ranks 5th.

Individuals affected

107,154

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$17.1M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in MD

21st

of 170 Maryland filings

Rank in 2025

87th

of 798 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
Health Plan
Individuals affected
107,154
Breach submission date
30 June 2025
Submission year
2025
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 Maryland by size
21st of 170
Rank in 2025 nationally
87th of 798
Maryland median filing
4,792 individuals
Register id (derived)
MD-20250630-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-servic

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Maryland and in 2025

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 117 of the 170 Maryland filings (69%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 45% of Maryland filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 38% of Maryland filings do involve one. At 107,154 individuals the breach is 22 times the Maryland median filing of 4,792 and 27 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

As of 28 August 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.

Maryland's breach notification statute (Md. Code, Com. Law 14-3504) requires notice to affected residents within 45 days after discovery or notification of the breach. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (AG notified before individual notices are sent). 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 107,154 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 $17.1M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $20.6M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

107,154 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$17.1M

107,154 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$20.6M

107,154 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 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

Maryland statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Maryland: Md. Code, Com. Law 14-3504

Notice to individuals
Within 45 days after discovery or notification of the breach
Attorney general threshold
All breaches (AG notified before individual notices are sent) (Before individual notifications are sent)
Private right of action
No: No PROA under the breach statute; AG enforcement only
Penalty
Unfair or deceptive trade practice; up to $10,000 per violation, $25,000 per repeat violation

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

Maryland filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Maryland filings in 2025, topped up from other years where 2025 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc.OpenBusiness Associate553,3329 Apr 2025
MedStar St. Mary's HospitalHealthcare Provider172,91529 May 2025
Columbia Medical PracticeOpenHealthcare Provider94,1315 Dec 2025
MedStar Health, Inc.OpenHealthcare Provider64,3323 Dec 2025

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 2026-08-28. 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-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 497.

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