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 July 13, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Alive Hospice, TN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 13, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13751, row:4890)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Alive Hospice, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 7,858 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, clinical information, health insurance information, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. Affected individuals were also offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.