Communications Workers of America Local 1180 Security Benefits Fund: 18,550 individuals, Feb 2026.

OCR classifies the incident as unauthorized access or disclosure, with the breached information held in an electronic medical record system and another location. Unauthorized Access/Disclosure is the type recorded on 100 of the 511 New York filings (20%) and on 13% of all filings submitted in 2026. Electronic Medical Record appears on 6% of New York filings.

A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 30% of New York filings. At 18,550 individuals the breach is 3.5 times the New York median filing of 5,338 and 4.6 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.

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 18,550 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 $2.97M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $3.56M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Communications Workers of America Local 1180 Security Benefits Fund. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.5 times the sector average.