Breach filing
Under investigationRichmond Behavioral Health Authority: 113,232 individuals, Nov 2025.
Richmond Behavioral Health Authority reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 28 November 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Virginia and lists 113,232 individuals affected, which makes it the 14th largest of the 157 Virginia filings on the register and the 80th largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 16 Virginia filings made in 2025 it ranks 4th.
Individuals affected
113,232
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$18.1M
Upper bound, method shown
Rank in VA
14th
of 157 Virginia filings
Rank in 2025
80th
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
- 113,232
- Breach submission date
- 28 November 2025
- Submission year
- 2025
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Virginia (VA)
- Portal status
- listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
- Rank in Virginia by size
- 14th of 157
- Rank in 2025 nationally
- 80th of 798
- Virginia median filing
- 4,441 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- VA-20251128-richmond-behavioral-health-authority
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Virginia and in 2025
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 99 of the 157 Virginia filings (63%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server is the most common location in the state, appearing on 53% of Virginia filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 39% of Virginia filings do involve one. At 113,232 individuals the breach is 25 times the Virginia median filing of 4,441 and 28 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.
Virginia's breach notification statute (Va. Code 18.2-186.6) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (concurrent with individual notice). 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 113,232 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 $18.1M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $21.7M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Richmond Behavioral Health Authority. 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
113,232 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
Upper boundIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$18.1M
113,232 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$21.7M
113,232 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Richmond Behavioral Health Authority 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
Virginia statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Virginia: Va. Code 18.2-186.6
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- All breaches (concurrent with individual notice) (Concurrent with individual notification)
- Private right of action
- Limited: Individuals may recover direct economic damages (no non-economic damages)
- Penalty
- AG may impose civil penalties up to $150,000 per breach
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
Virginia filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Virginia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Med Atlantic, Inc. | Business Associate | 410,326 | 21 Nov 2025 | |||
| Delta Dental of Virginia | Health Plan | 126,953 | 21 Nov 2025 | |||
| Cardiology Associates of Fredericksburg | Healthcare Provider | 75,476 | 17 Apr 2025 | |||
| Horizon Behavioral Health | Healthcare Provider | 49,303 | 21 Apr 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-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 335.
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