Breach filing
ArchivedHealth Share of Oregon: 654,362 individuals, Feb 2020.
Health Share of Oregon reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 5 February 2020. The filing records the organisation as a health plan in Oregon and lists 654,362 individuals affected, which makes it the 3rd largest of the 120 Oregon filings on the register and the 9th largest of the 663 filings submitted nationally in 2020. Among the 6 Oregon filings made in 2020 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
654,362
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$105M
Upper bound, method shown
Rank in OR
3rd
of 120 Oregon filings
Rank in 2020
9th
of 663 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
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 654,362
- Breach submission date
- 5 February 2020
- Submission year
- 2020
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- Oregon (OR)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Oregon by size
- 3rd of 120
- Rank in 2020 nationally
- 9th of 663
- Oregon median filing
- 2,400 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- OR-20200205-health-share-of-oregon
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Oregon and in 2020
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Theft is the type recorded on 21 of the 120 Oregon filings (18%) and on 6% of all filings submitted in 2020. Laptop appears on 9% of Oregon filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 23% of Oregon filings. At 654,362 individuals the breach is 273 times the Oregon median filing of 2,400 and 164 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.
Oregon's breach notification statute (ORS 646A.600 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents as soon as practicable but no later than 45 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: 250 or more Oregon 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 654,362 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 $105M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $126M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Health Share of Oregon. 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 (CE), Health Share of Oregon, reported that the office of its business associate was burglarized and six laptop computers were stolen. This breach affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 654,362 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Complimentary credit monitoring services were also provided to affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented new administrative, technical, and security safeguards to prevent future incidents. All workforce members were retrained. Following OCR's investigation, the CE created a new audit tool to detect the information security needs of its business associates.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
654,362 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
Upper boundIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$105M
654,362 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$126M
654,362 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Health Share of Oregon 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
Oregon statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Oregon: ORS 646A.600 et seq.
Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act
- Notice to individuals
- As soon as practicable but no later than 45 days after discovery
- Attorney general threshold
- 250 or more Oregon residents (Within the 45-day notification window)
- Private right of action
- No: No express PROA; remedies may run through the Unlawful Trade Practices Act
- Penalty
- Up to $1,000 per violation; continuing violations up to $500,000
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
Oregon filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Oregon filings in 2020, topped up from other years where 2020 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Health Technology | Business Associate | 1,752,076 | 15 Aug 2023 | |||
| Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C. | Healthcare Provider | 750,500 | 6 Dec 2021 | |||
| Oregon Department of Human Services | Business Associate | 625,000 | 22 Mar 2019 | |||
| Providence Health Plan | Health Plan | 49,511 | 16 Jun 2020 | |||
| Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc. | Healthcare Provider | 25,187 | 3 Jan 2020 |
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 4063.
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