Breach filing
ArchivedWood River Health: 54,926 individuals, Jul 2025.
Wood River Health reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 28 July 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Rhode Island and lists 54,926 individuals affected, which makes it the 3rd largest of the 41 Rhode Island filings on the register and the 145th largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 5 Rhode Island filings made in 2025 it ranks 3rd.
Individuals affected
54,926
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$8.79M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in RI
3rd
of 41 Rhode Island filings
Rank in 2025
145th
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
- 54,926
- Breach submission date
- 28 July 2025
- Submission year
- 2025
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Rhode Island (RI)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Rhode Island by size
- 3rd of 41
- Rank in 2025 nationally
- 145th of 798
- Rhode Island median filing
- 4,000 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- RI-20250728-wood-river-health
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Rhode Island and in 2025
OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in email. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 16 of the 41 Rhode Island filings (39%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Email appears on 7% of Rhode Island filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 17% of Rhode Island filings do involve one. At 54,926 individuals the breach is 14 times the Rhode Island median filing of 4,000 and 14 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.
Rhode Island's breach notification statute (R.I. Gen. Laws Ch. 11-49.3) requires notice to affected residents within 45 calendar days after confirmation of the breach (30 days for government agencies). Its attorney general threshold: 500 or more Rhode Island 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 54,926 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 $8.79M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $10.5M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Wood River Health. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 1.6 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.
The covered entity (CA), Wood River Health, reported that an employee was the target of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 54,926 individuals. The PHI involved included clinical, demographic, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
54,926 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$8.79M
54,926 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$10.5M
54,926 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Wood River Health 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
Rhode Island statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Rhode Island: R.I. Gen. Laws Ch. 11-49.3
Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015
- Notice to individuals
- Within 45 calendar days after confirmation of the breach (30 days for government agencies)
- Attorney general threshold
- 500 or more Rhode Island residents (Simultaneously with individual notice)
- Private right of action
- No: No direct individual lawsuits; AG holds exclusive enforcement authority
- Penalty
- Up to $100 per record (reckless) or $200 per record (knowing and willful), no aggregate cap
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
Rhode Island filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Rhode Island 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 entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Care AllianceOpen | Healthcare Provider | 114,975 | 1 Mar 2025 | |||
| Brightstar Global Solutions CorporationOpen | Health Plan | 103,879 | 3 Oct 2025 | |||
| Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics | Healthcare Provider | 4,000 | 30 Nov 2025 | |||
| CVS Caremark | Business Associate | 2,599 | 13 May 2025 |
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 300.
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