Breach filing
Under investigationSinging River Health System: 53,888 individuals, May 2026.
Singing River Health System reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 19 May 2026. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Mississippi and lists 53,888 individuals affected, which makes it the 8th largest of the 55 Mississippi filings on the register and the 60th largest of the 441 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 3 Mississippi filings made in 2026 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
53,888
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$8.62M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in MS
8th
of 55 Mississippi filings
Rank in 2026
60th
of 441 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
- 53,888
- Breach submission date
- 19 May 2026
- Submission year
- 2026
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Mississippi (MS)
- Portal status
- listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
- Rank in Mississippi by size
- 8th of 55
- Rank in 2026 nationally
- 60th of 441
- Mississippi median filing
- 5,220 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- MS-20260519-singing-river-health-system
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Mississippi 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 39 of the 55 Mississippi filings (71%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Network Server is the most common location in the state, appearing on 55% of Mississippi filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 33% of Mississippi filings do involve one. At 53,888 individuals the breach is 10 times the Mississippi median filing of 5,220 and 13 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 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.
Mississippi's breach notification statute (Miss. Code Ann. 75-24-29) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: no AG notification requirement at any 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 53,888 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 $8.62M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $10.3M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Singing River Health System. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 1.6 times the sector average.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
53,888 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$8.62M
53,888 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$10.3M
53,888 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Singing River Health System 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
Mississippi statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Mississippi: Miss. Code Ann. 75-24-29
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- No AG notification requirement at any threshold
- Private right of action
- No: Statute expressly creates no private right of action
- Penalty
- Unfair trade practice; up to $10,000 per willful violation under the Consumer Protection Act
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
Mississippi filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Mississippi 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 entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Family Health Center, Inc | Healthcare Provider | 65,890 | 2 Jul 2021 | |||
| Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford | Healthcare Provider | 64,000 | 30 Sep 2016 | |||
| OCH Regional Medical Center, MS | Healthcare Provider | 51,266 | 11 Mar 2025 | |||
| Brookhaven ENT Allergy and Facial SurgeryOpen | Healthcare Provider | 30,403 | 24 Jul 2026 | |||
| Joseph J Chappell, Jr., MD, PA dba Tupelo Eye ClinicOpen | Healthcare Provider | 6,245 | 10 Apr 2026 |
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-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 115.
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