HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of May 17, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Acadia Montana Treatment Center, MT
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 17, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13400, row:4539)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Acadia Montana Treatment Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee’s computer was infected with malware that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 14,794 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, drivers’ license numbers, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE retrained its workforce, implemented additional technical safeguards, and sanctioned the workforce member responsible for the breach.