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 March 31, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Affordacare Urgent Care Clinics, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 31, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12936, row:4075)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Affordacare Urgent Care Clinics, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 57,411 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its employees and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.