Breach filing
ArchivedAdministracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA): 46,473 individuals, Apr 2014.
Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA) reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 15 April 2014. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in Puerto Rico and lists 46,473 individuals affected, which makes it the 6th largest of the 32 Puerto Rico filings on the register and the 29th largest of the 314 filings submitted nationally in 2014. Among the 9 Puerto Rico filings made in 2014 it ranks 3rd.
Individuals affected
46,473
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$7.44M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in PR
6th
of 32 Puerto Rico filings
Rank in 2014
29th
of 314 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
- 46,473
- Breach submission date
- 15 April 2014
- Submission year
- 2014
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Puerto Rico by size
- 6th of 32
- Rank in 2014 nationally
- 29th of 314
- Puerto Rico median filing
- 7,911 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- PR-20140415-administracion-de-seguros-de-salud-tripl
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Puerto Rico and in 2014
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in another portable electronic device. Theft is the type recorded on 25 of the 32 Puerto Rico filings (78%) and on 41% of all filings submitted in 2014. Other Portable Electronic Device appears on 19% of Puerto Rico filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 56% of Puerto Rico filings. At 46,473 individuals the breach is 5.9 times the Puerto Rico median filing of 7,911 and 12 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.
Puerto Rico is outside the site's 50-state statute table, so no state deadline is shown; the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule still applied, requiring notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.
Multiplying 46,473 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 $7.44M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $8.92M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA). For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 1.3 times the sector average.
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.
On March 27, 2014, the covered entity (CE), Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, also known as the Administracion de Seguros Salud de Puerto Rico, reported that on January 14, 2014, it became aware that sometime before October 9, 2013, a former employee of Triple-S Salud's business associate (BA), Triple-S Advantage Solutions, copied beneficiaries' electronic protected health information (ePHI) onto a compact disk which he took home for an unspecified period of time and which he subsequently downloaded onto a computer at his new employer. The ePHI included beneficiary enrollment information, including names, dates of births, contract numbers, health insurance claim number, home addresses, and social security numbers of 54,384 of the CE's beneficiaries. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Due to OCR's investigation, the CE committed to conduct a risk analysis, implement a risk management plan, revise its policies and procedures, and re-train its staff within a specified period.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
46,473 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$7.44M
46,473 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$8.92M
46,473 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA) 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
Puerto Rico statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Puerto Rico is outside the site's 50-state statute table. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule applied regardless: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.
HIPAA breach penalties and the 60-day ruleSection F.7 / Peer filings
Puerto Rico filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Puerto Rico filings in 2014, topped up from other years where 2014 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triple-S Salud, Inc. - Breach Case#2 | Health Plan | 398,000 | 24 Jan 2014 | |||
| Triple-S Salud | Health Plan | 56,853 | 29 May 2014 | |||
| American Health Inc. | Health Plan | 17,776 | 3 Apr 2014 | |||
| American Health Inc. | Health Plan | 11,531 | 18 May 2014 |
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 6156.
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