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Filing PR-20110509-mmm-healthcareHHS OCR Breach Register, Puerto Rico

Breach filing

Archived

MMM Healthcare, Inc.: 32,390 individuals, May 2011.

MMM Healthcare, Inc. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 9 May 2011. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Puerto Rico and lists 32,390 individuals affected, which makes it the 7th largest of the 32 Puerto Rico filings on the register and the 17th largest of the 200 filings submitted nationally in 2011. Among the 7 Puerto Rico filings made in 2011 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

32,390

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$5.18M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in PR

7th

of 32 Puerto Rico filings

Rank in 2011

17th

of 200 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
32,390
Breach submission date
9 May 2011
Submission year
2011
Type of breach
Theft
Location of breached information
Desktop Computer
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
Rank in Puerto Rico by size
7th of 32
Rank in 2011 nationally
17th of 200
Puerto Rico median filing
7,911 individuals
Register id (derived)
PR-20110509-mmm-healthcare

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Puerto Rico and in 2011

OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a desktop computer. Theft is the type recorded on 25 of the 32 Puerto Rico filings (78%) and on 62% of all filings submitted in 2011. Desktop Computer appears on 16% of Puerto Rico filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 56% of Puerto Rico filings do involve one. At 32,390 individuals the breach is 4.1 times the Puerto Rico median filing of 7,911 and 8.1 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 32,390 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 $5.18M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $6.22M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by MMM Healthcare, Inc.. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.9 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.

Thieves broke into the MMM Healthcare, Inc. facility located in Humacao, Puerto Rico and stole four unencrypted desktop computers containing 32,390 health plan members' electronic protected health information (ePHI). The ePHI stored in the stolen computers included names, addresses, phone numbers, Medicare numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, health plan names, health plan member identification numbers, health plan enrollment information, health care claim information, and social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE repaired a damaged wall and improved physical security for the facility and the surrounding premises. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE encrypted all computers located at its regional offices. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above. Additionally, OCR stated its expectation that the CE will perform a thorough and accurate risk analysis and establish a risk management plan. In addition, OCR stated its expectation that the CE will implement contingency operations procedures, implement its security policies and procedures, and regularly patch and update its IT infrastructure. OCR stated an expectation for the CE to encrypt ePHI where appropriate, and document the technical safeguards implemented to prohibit the unauthorized copying and removal of PHI and ePHI from the premises.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

32,390 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$5.18M

32,390 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$6.22M

32,390 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by MMM Healthcare, 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

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 rule

Section F.7 / Peer filings

Puerto Rico filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Puerto Rico filings in 2011, topped up from other years where 2011 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Triple-S SaludHealth Plan56,85329 May 2014
Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA)Business Associate46,47315 Apr 2014
T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health ConsultingBusiness Associate27,09812 Mar 2012
PMC Medicare ChoiceHealth Plan24,3619 May 2011
VA Caribbean Healthcare SystemHealthcare Provider6,00626 May 2011

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 6894.

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