Incident · State breach notice (Massachusetts)
Park Place Behavioral Healthcare data breach: files copied, and what Osceola Mental Health changed
Compiled from public records. Updated 2026-11-13. By the cisonews.net Desk.
The Osceola Mental Health, Inc. d/b/a Park Place Behavioral Healthcare data breach affected 71,702 people, according to the federal health breach portal, where Osceola Mental Health Inc. dba Park Place Behavioral Healthcare reported a hacking or IT incident as a health care provider on August 26, 2026. Osceola Mental Health, which does business as Park Place Behavioral Healthcare in Kissimmee, Florida, says it became aware of unusual activity on its computer systems on July 23, 2026, and that an unauthorized party copied some of the information stored there. The federal health breach list and Indiana's attorney general both count 71,702 people. Letters dated September 23, 2026 offer IDX identity protection, with an enrollment deadline of December 23, 2026.
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What happened at Park Place Behavioral Healthcare?
Osceola says it secured its systems and hired a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm, whose forensic investigation finished on August 19, 2026. It then reviewed the affected files and settled the list of people to notify on September 17.
| Date | What the letter and the regulators' records say |
|---|---|
| July 5, 2026 | Date of breach on Indiana's record |
| July 23, 2026 | Osceola becomes aware of unusual activity |
| August 19, 2026 | Forensic investigation ends |
| August 26, 2026 | Report to HHS (71,702) |
| September 17, 2026 | List of people to notify finalized |
| September 23, 2026 | Letter date; Indiana notice (10 residents) |
| September 24, 2026 | Logged in Massachusetts (52 residents) |
Indiana's record puts the breach on July 5, 18 days before Osceola says it noticed anything. The letter itself gives no start date.
What did Osceola change after the breach?
Osceola says it reset all user account credentials, installed endpoint detection and response software to watch its network, tightened its remote access methods and restored operations in a safe mode. The letter does not say how the intruder got in.
What information was involved?
The data varied by person. It may include Social Security number, driver's license or other government ID number, financial account information, health information and health insurance information. For the 52 Massachusetts residents in Park Place Behavioral Healthcare's notice, the state's record marks Social Security numbers, medical records, financial accounts and driver's licenses as breached. Osceola says it has had no reports of misuse or identity theft.
What is Osceola offering?
| Item | Detail from the letter |
|---|---|
| Service | Credit and CyberScan monitoring, a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy and managed identity theft recovery; the sample leaves the term as 12 or 24 months |
| Provider | IDX |
| Enrollment deadline | December 23, 2026 |
| Questions | The number printed on each letter, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday, excluding U.S. national holidays |
The guide to credit monitoring offers sets Park Place Behavioral Healthcare's offer beside other letters, and the guide to healthcare provider breach notices compares other providers' letters.
What the documents leave open
- What happened on July 5, the date on Indiana's record.
- How the unauthorized party got in.
- Whether patients get 12 or 24 months of protection.
With 71,702 people, Park Place Behavioral Healthcare's report is the 62nd largest of the 415 open 2026 reports in the ranking of 2026 healthcare breaches reported to HHS.
How this disclosure's timing compares
Osceola Mental Health, Inc. d/b/a Park Place Behavioral Healthcare disclosed 63 days after the discovery date its notice gives. Across the 206 other state breach notices on cisonews.net that date discovery to the day, the median gap is 100 days.
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- Nephrology Associates, P.C., Breach notice, first disclosed November 6, 2026
Sources
- 2026-09-24 · AOsceola Mental Health, Inc. d/b/a Park Place Behavioral Healthcare, notice of data breach filed with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, published September 24, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, breach portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AIndiana Attorney General, data breach year-to-date report (2026), published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AMassachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, 2026 Data Breach Notification Report, published November 7, 2026
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