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 28, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Allegheny County, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 28, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10567, row:1706)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Allegheny County, the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 689,686 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, diagnoses, claims information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the incident, the CE and BA strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI.