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Filing SC-20260417-innovative-scientific-solutionsHHS OCR Breach Register, South Carolina

Breach filing

Under investigation

Innovative Scientific Solutions, LLC: 143,842 individuals, Apr 2026.

Innovative Scientific Solutions, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 17 April 2026. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in South Carolina and lists 143,842 individuals affected, which makes it the 6th largest of the 86 South Carolina filings on the register and the 31st largest of the 441 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 9 South Carolina filings made in 2026 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

143,842

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$23.0M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in SC

6th

of 86 South Carolina filings

Rank in 2026

31st

of 441 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
143,842
Breach submission date
17 April 2026
Submission year
2026
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 South Carolina by size
6th of 86
Rank in 2026 nationally
31st of 441
South Carolina median filing
4,125 individuals
Register id (derived)
SC-20260417-innovative-scientific-solutions

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in South Carolina and in 2026

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 54 of the 86 South Carolina filings (63%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Network Server appears on 48% of South Carolina filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 34% of South Carolina filings do involve one. At 143,842 individuals the breach is 35 times the South Carolina median filing of 4,125 and 36 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

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.

South Carolina's breach notification statute (S.C. Code 39-1-90) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: no direct AG requirement (Dept. of Consumer Affairs at 1,000+ 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 143,842 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 $23.0M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $27.6M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Innovative Scientific Solutions, LLC. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

143,842 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$23.0M

143,842 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$27.6M

143,842 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Innovative Scientific Solutions, LLC 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

South Carolina statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

South Carolina: S.C. Code 39-1-90

Notice to individuals
In the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay
Attorney general threshold
No direct AG requirement (Dept. of Consumer Affairs at 1,000+ residents)
Private right of action
Yes: Residents may sue; actual damages for negligent violations, broader recovery for knowing and willful
Penalty
Administrative fines of $1,000 per affected resident for knowing and willful violations

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

South Carolina filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among South Carolina filings in 2026, topped up from other years where 2026 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Roper St. Francis HealthcareHealthcare Provider189,7618 Jan 2021
Sandhills Medical FoundationOpenHealthcare Provider169,01714 Sep 2025
Vikor Scientific, LLC.Healthcare Provider139,9646 Feb 2026
Roper st. Francis HealthcareHealthcare Provider92,9638 Sep 2020
McLeod Physician Associates IIOpenHealthcare Provider19,5534 Jun 2026

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 163.

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