Breach filing
ArchivedT&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting: 27,098 individuals, Mar 2012.
T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 12 March 2012. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in Puerto Rico and lists 27,098 individuals affected, which makes it the 8th largest of the 32 Puerto Rico filings on the register and the 18th largest of the 218 filings submitted nationally in 2012. Among the 6 Puerto Rico filings made in 2012 it ranks 1st. T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting submitted 1 further report on the same day (10,000 individuals); this page covers the largest and lists the others below.
Individuals affected
27,098
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$4.34M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in PR
8th
of 32 Puerto Rico filings
Rank in 2012
18th
of 218 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
- 27,098
- Breach submission date
- 12 March 2012
- Submission year
- 2012
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Puerto Rico by size
- 8th of 32
- Rank in 2012 nationally
- 18th of 218
- Puerto Rico median filing
- 7,911 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- PR-20120312-t-and-p-consulting-d-b-a-quantum-health
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Puerto Rico and in 2012
OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Theft is the type recorded on 25 of the 32 Puerto Rico filings (78%) and on 61% of all filings submitted in 2012. Laptop appears on 25% of Puerto Rico filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 56% of Puerto Rico filings. At 27,098 individuals the breach is 3.4 times the Puerto Rico median filing of 7,911 and 6.8 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 27,098 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 $4.34M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $5.20M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.8 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.
OCR opened an investigation of the covered entity (CE), Centro De Servicios de Cuidados Dirigidos, Inc. d/b/a Metro Salud grupo Profesional, after it reported an unencrypted laptop computer and external hard drive containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 27,098 individuals were stolen from a staff member of the CE's business associate (BA), Quantum Health. The ePHI included names, age, sex, social security numbers, medical services provided, diagnosis codes, and the dates of service. Upon discovery of the breach, the CE filed a police report to recover the stolen items. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE had its BA conduct a risk analysis and implemented new security policies and procedures to ensure adequate safeguards to protect ePHI and retain its employees. In addition, the CE also had its BA change its security practices to include encryption on all laptops and restricted the use of portable media devices. Lastly, the CE also provided media notification and notification to all individuals affected by the breach.
Section F.4 / Same-day filings
1 further report by T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting on 12 March 2012
Separate rows on the HHS portal with their own counts; this page covers the largest and lists the rest here rather than giving each its own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T & P Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting | Business Associate | 10,000 | 12 Mar 2012 |
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
27,098 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$4.34M
27,098 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$5.20M
27,098 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by T&P Consulting, INC. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting 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 2012, topped up from other years where 2012 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA) | Business Associate | 46,473 | 15 Apr 2014 | |||
| MMM Healthcare, Inc. | Healthcare Provider | 32,390 | 9 May 2011 | |||
| PMC Medicare Choice | Health Plan | 24,361 | 9 May 2011 | |||
| T & P Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting | Business Associate | 10,000 | 12 Mar 2012 | |||
| Quantum Health Consulting | Business Associate | 7,923 | 13 Mar 2012 |
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 6720.
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