Breach filing
ArchivedLogan County Emergeny Ambulance Service Authority: 12,563 individuals, Nov 2011.
Logan County Emergeny Ambulance Service Authority reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 8 November 2011. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in West Virginia and lists 12,563 individuals affected, which makes it the 10th largest of the 47 West Virginia filings on the register and the 34th largest of the 200 filings submitted nationally in 2011. Among the 4 West Virginia filings made in 2011 it ranks 1st.
Individuals affected
12,563
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$2.01M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in WV
10th
of 47 West Virginia filings
Rank in 2011
34th
of 200 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
- 12,563
- Breach submission date
- 8 November 2011
- Submission year
- 2011
- Type of breach
- Loss, Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- West Virginia (WV)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in West Virginia by size
- 10th of 47
- Rank in 2011 nationally
- 34th of 200
- West Virginia median filing
- 2,643 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- WV-20111108-logan-county-emergeny-ambulance-service
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in West Virginia and in 2011
OCR classifies the incident as loss of records or equipment and theft, with the breached information held in a laptop. Loss is the type recorded on 1 of the 47 West Virginia filings (2%) and on 10% of all filings submitted in 2011. Laptop appears on 4% of West Virginia filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 36% of West Virginia filings do involve one. At 12,563 individuals the breach is 4.8 times the West Virginia median filing of 2,643 and 3.1 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.
West Virginia's breach notification statute (W. Va. Code 46A-2A-101 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: no AG notification requirement. 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 12,563 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 $2.01M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.41M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Logan County Emergeny Ambulance Service Authority. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.4 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.
\N
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
12,563 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$2.01M
12,563 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.41M
12,563 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Logan County Emergeny Ambulance Service 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
West Virginia statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
West Virginia: W. Va. Code 46A-2A-101 et seq.
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- No AG notification requirement
- Private right of action
- No: No PROA; the AG has exclusive enforcement authority
- Penalty
- Unfair or deceptive act; penalties require repeated and willful violations, capped at $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
West Virginia filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among West Virginia filings in 2011, topped up from other years where 2011 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coplin Health Systems | Healthcare Provider | 43,000 | 29 Dec 2017 | |||
| Weirton Medical Center | Healthcare Provider | 26,793 | 18 Mar 2024 | |||
| WomenCare, Inc. d/b/a FamilyCare Health Center | Healthcare Provider | 9,584 | 28 May 2021 | |||
| Xforia Web Services | Business Associate | 3,655 | 16 Feb 2011 | |||
| Clarksburg - Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center | Healthcare Provider | 1,470 | 30 Mar 2011 |
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 6783.
Corrections: if you represent a listed entity and the portal row has been amended, email [email protected] with the portal entry and we will re-pull the export.