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Filing WA-20251028-northwest-radiologists-mount-baker-imagiHHS OCR Breach Register, Washington

Breach filing

Under investigation

Northwest Radiologists, Inc./Mount Baker Imaging: 362,713 individuals, Oct 2025.

Northwest Radiologists, Inc./Mount Baker Imaging reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 28 October 2025. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Washington and lists 362,713 individuals affected, which makes it the 12th largest of the 185 Washington filings on the register and the 28th largest of the 798 filings submitted nationally in 2025. Among the 17 Washington filings made in 2025 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

362,713

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$58.0M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in WA

12th

of 185 Washington filings

Rank in 2025

28th

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
362,713
Breach submission date
28 October 2025
Submission year
2025
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 Washington by size
12th of 185
Rank in 2025 nationally
28th of 798
Washington median filing
3,950 individuals
Register id (derived)
WA-20251028-northwest-radiologists-mount-baker-imagi

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Washington 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 117 of the 185 Washington filings (63%) and on 81% of all filings submitted in 2025. Network Server appears on 48% of Washington filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 21% of Washington filings do involve one. At 362,713 individuals the breach is 92 times the Washington median filing of 3,950 and 91 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.

Washington's breach notification statute (RCW 19.255.010) requires notice to affected residents no later than 30 days after discovery. Its attorney general threshold: more than 500 Washington 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 362,713 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 $58.0M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $69.6M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Northwest Radiologists, Inc./Mount Baker Imaging. 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

362,713 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$58.0M

362,713 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$69.6M

362,713 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Northwest Radiologists, Inc./Mount Baker Imaging 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

Washington statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Washington: RCW 19.255.010

Notice to individuals
No later than 30 days after discovery
Attorney general threshold
More than 500 Washington residents (Within the same 30-day window)
Private right of action
Yes: Civil lawsuits under the Consumer Protection Act; actual damages plus up to $1,000 punitive for willful violations
Penalty
Consumers may recover damages, costs, and attorney fees; AG may seek penalties and injunctive relief

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

Washington filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Washington 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 entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Columbia Surgical Specialist of SpokaneHealthcare Provider400,00018 Feb 2019
Community Health Plan of WashingtonHealth Plan381,50421 Dec 2016
Virginia Mason Medical CenterHealthcare Provider244,7618 Sep 2020
Whitman County Public Hospital District No. 3Healthcare Provider63,45311 Apr 2025
Behavioral Health ResourcesOpenHealthcare Provider49,21317 Jan 2025

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 370.

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