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Filing PA-20250424-drug-and-alcohol-treatment-servicesHHS OCR Breach Register, Pennsylvania

Breach filing

Under investigation

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, Inc.: 22,215 individuals, Apr 2025.

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, Inc. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 24 April 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Pennsylvania and lists 22,215 individuals affected, which makes it the 78th largest of the 339 Pennsylvania filings on the register and the 223rd largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 37 Pennsylvania filings made in 2025 it ranks 9th.

Individuals affected

22,215

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$3.55M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in PA

78th

of 339 Pennsylvania filings

Rank in 2025

223rd

of 798 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
22,215
Breach submission date
24 April 2025
Submission year
2025
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Pennsylvania by size
78th of 339
Rank in 2025 nationally
223rd of 798
Pennsylvania median filing
3,905 individuals
Register id (derived)
PA-20250424-drug-and-alcohol-treatment-services

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Pennsylvania and in 2025

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 228 of the 339 Pennsylvania filings (67%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server is the most common location in the state, appearing on 51% of Pennsylvania filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 34% of Pennsylvania filings do involve one. At 22,215 individuals the breach is 5.7 times the Pennsylvania median filing of 3,905 and 5.6 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 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.

Pennsylvania's breach notification statute (73 Pa. Stat. 2301 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: more than 500 Pennsylvania 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 22,215 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 $3.55M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $4.27M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, Inc.. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.6 times the sector average.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

22,215 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$3.55M

22,215 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$4.27M

22,215 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, Inc. 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

Pennsylvania statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Pennsylvania: 73 Pa. Stat. 2301 et seq.

Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (amended by Act 33 of 2024)

Notice to individuals
Without unreasonable delay
Attorney general threshold
More than 500 Pennsylvania residents (Without unreasonable delay (online portal))
Private right of action
Yes: Treated as an unfair or deceptive practice; consumers may pursue civil suits
Penalty
AG enforcement via civil actions, injunctive relief, civil penalties, and restitution

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

Pennsylvania filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Pennsylvania filings in 2025, topped up from other years where 2025 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Greater Pittsburgh Orthopaedics AssociatesOpenHealthcare Provider35,00027 Aug 2025
PGA Development, Inc.OpenHealthcare Provider23,89910 Sep 2025
Firetree, LtdOpenHealthcare Provider17,97917 Oct 2025
True Dental Care For Kids and Adults LLCHealthcare Provider17,6402 Apr 2025

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 572.

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