Form: Cost-of-Breach DisclosureSource: IBM Cost of a Data BreachFiled: 28 Apr 2026
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Filing OH-20260721-unlimited-technology-systemsHHS OCR Breach Register, Ohio

Breach filing

Under investigation

Unlimited Technology Systems, LLC: 3,803,750 individuals, Jul 2026.

Unlimited Technology Systems, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 21 July 2026. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in Ohio and lists 3,803,750 individuals affected, which makes it the 1st largest of the 276 Ohio filings on the register and the 3rd largest of the 441 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 12 Ohio filings made in 2026 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

3,803,750

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$609M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in OH

1st

of 276 Ohio filings

Rank in 2026

3rd

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
Business Associate
Individuals affected
3,803,750
Breach submission date
21 July 2026
Submission year
2026
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Ohio by size
1st of 276
Rank in 2026 nationally
3rd of 441
Ohio median filing
2,763 individuals
Register id (derived)
OH-20260721-unlimited-technology-systems

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Ohio 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 162 of the 276 Ohio filings (59%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Network Server appears on 46% of Ohio filings.

A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 29% of Ohio filings. At 3,803,750 individuals the breach is 1,377 times the Ohio median filing of 2,763 and 951 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 149 filings on the register of one million 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.

Ohio's breach notification statute (Ohio Rev. Code 1349.19) requires notice to affected residents within 45 days of discovery or notification of a breach. Its attorney general threshold: no direct AG requirement (reporting agencies at more than 1,000 residents). 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 3,803,750 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 $609M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $730M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Unlimited Technology Systems, LLC. 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

3,803,750 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$609M

3,803,750 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$730M

3,803,750 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Unlimited Technology Systems, LLC 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

Ohio statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Ohio: Ohio Rev. Code 1349.19

Notice to individuals
Within 45 days of discovery or notification of a breach
Attorney general threshold
No direct AG requirement (reporting agencies at more than 1,000 residents)
Private right of action
No: No direct individual lawsuits; AG may investigate under ORC 1349.191
Penalty
Escalating civil penalties up to $10,000 per day for intentional or reckless non-compliance

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

Ohio filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Ohio 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 entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
CareSourceBusiness Associate3,180,53727 Jul 2023
Kettering Adventist HealthcareOpenHealthcare Provider1,695,38221 Jul 2025
The Kroger Co.Healthcare Provider1,474,28419 Feb 2021
Counseling Center of Wayne & Holmes CountiesOpenHealthcare Provider83,3549 Feb 2026
City of MiddletownOpenHealthcare Provider20,6083 Jun 2026

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 14.

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