Breach filing
ArchivedBronx Lebanon Hospital Center: 10,930 individuals, Oct 2013.
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 25 October 2013. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in New York and lists 10,930 individuals affected, which makes it the 181st largest of the 511 New York filings on the register and the 37th largest of the 277 filings submitted nationally in 2013. Among the 15 New York filings made in 2013 it ranks 4th.
Individuals affected
10,930
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$1.75M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in NY
181st
of 511 New York filings
Rank in 2013
37th
of 277 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
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 10,930
- Breach submission date
- 25 October 2013
- Submission year
- 2013
- Type of breach
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- New York (NY)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in New York by size
- 181st of 511
- Rank in 2013 nationally
- 37th of 277
- New York median filing
- 5,338 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- NY-20131025-bronx-lebanon-hospital-center
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in New York and in 2013
OCR classifies the incident as unauthorized access or disclosure, with the breached information held in a network server. Unauthorized Access/Disclosure is the type recorded on 100 of the 511 New York filings (20%) and on 27% of all filings submitted in 2013. Network Server appears on 49% of New York filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 30% of New York filings. At 10,930 individuals the breach is 2.0 times the New York median filing of 5,338 and 2.7 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.
New York's breach notification statute (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 899-aa) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 30 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (AG, Dept. of State, State Police). 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 10,930 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 $1.75M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.10M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. 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.
A transcription company's subcontractor misconfigured its server, such that search engines, such as Google, were able to locate the server and index the records on that machine, including names, dates of service, medical record number, dates of birth and types of procedures/diagnoses for patients of the covered entity (CE), Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. The CE that had retained the transcription company, Professional Transaction Services (PTC), provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Once the CE learned of the breach, it initiated an investigation and learned that PTC's subcontractor immediately disabled the server, destroyed the hard drive that stored the PHI, and worked with Google to remove the protected health information (PHI) from the Google caches. The CE also engaged a technical consultant to conduct forensic analyses and work to ensure that affected patients' records could no longer be found by commonly used internet search engines. The CE also terminated its relationship with PTC and engaged a new transcription company. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
10,930 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$1.75M
10,930 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.10M
10,930 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center 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
New York statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
New York: N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 899-aa
amended by the SHIELD Act
- Notice to individuals
- In the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, no later than 30 days after discovery
- Attorney general threshold
- All breaches (AG, Dept. of State, State Police) (Aligned with timing and content of individual notices)
- Private right of action
- Limited: Actual damages only; no statutory damages and no attorney-fee recovery; enforced primarily by the AG
- Penalty
- Greater of $5,000 or $20 per failed notification, capped at $250,000; safeguard violations up to $5,000 each
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
New York filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among New York filings in 2013, topped up from other years where 2013 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Plus Amerigroup | Business Associate | 28,187 | 1 Mar 2013 | |||
| Lee D. Pollan, DMD, PC | Healthcare Provider | 19,178 | 11 Jan 2013 | |||
| Dent Neurologic Institute | Healthcare Provider | 10,000 | 14 May 2013 | |||
| South Shore Physicians, PC | Healthcare Provider | 8,000 | 16 Sep 2013 |
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 6332.
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