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 Feb. 15, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- AltaMed Health Services Corporation, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Feb. 15, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13532, row:4671)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On December 31, 2018, ShareCare Health Data Services, a business associate (BA), informed the covered entity (CE), AltaMed, that it had experienced a data security incident which affected the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 6,000 of the CE's patients. The breach affected both clinical and demographic electronic PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, other identifiers, and other treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE also revised its BA agreement with the BA. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented these corrective action steps.