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Filing NY-20241004-long-island-plastic-surgical-group-pcHHS OCR Breach Register, New York

Breach filing

Archived

Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, P.C.: 161,707 individuals, Oct 2024.

Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, P.C. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 4 October 2024. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in New York and lists 161,707 individuals affected, which makes it the 42nd largest of the 511 New York filings on the register and the 95th largest of the 741 filings submitted nationally in 2024. Among the 47 New York filings made in 2024 it ranks 9th.

Individuals affected

161,707

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$25.9M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in NY

42nd

of 511 New York filings

Rank in 2024

95th

of 741 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
161,707
Breach submission date
4 October 2024
Submission year
2024
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
Rank in New York by size
42nd of 511
Rank in 2024 nationally
95th of 741
New York median filing
5,338 individuals
Register id (derived)
NY-20241004-long-island-plastic-surgical-group-pc

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in New York and in 2024

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 328 of the 511 New York filings (64%) and on 83% of all filings submitted in 2024. Network Server appears on 49% of New York filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 30% of New York filings do involve one. At 161,707 individuals the breach is 30 times the New York median filing of 5,338 and 40 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 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 161,707 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 $25.9M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $31.0M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, P.C.. 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.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.

The covered entity reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 161,707 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, drivers' license and Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses/conditions, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards and installed various additional security measures to bolster its cybersecurity practices.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

161,707 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$25.9M

161,707 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$31.0M

161,707 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, P.C. 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 2024, topped up from other years where 2024 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Northeast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, PLLCHealthcare Provider177,10127 Feb 2024
General Physician, P.C.Healthcare Provider167,3874 Oct 2024
Jewish Home Lifecare, Inc.Healthcare Provider104,2348 Mar 2024
UNITE HEREBusiness Associate95,79723 Feb 2024

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-archive__2026-08-28.csv, export row 732.

Corrections: if you represent a listed entity and the portal row has been amended, email [email protected] with the portal entry and we will re-pull the export.