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 Dec. 6, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Adventist Health Simi Valley, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 6, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13100, row:4239)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Adventist Health Simi Valley, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 54,708 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional technical safeguards, revised its policies and procedures, and retrained its employees on email security. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance.