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Breach notice filed by American Medical Response, Inc. (November 2018)

Organization named: American Medical Response, Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Nov. 9, 2018.

Organization as reported
American Medical Response, Inc., TX
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Nov. 9, 2018
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13633, row:4772)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Pursuant to breach notification requirements, OCR received a breach report from American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR), the covered entity (CE). Since this report was a duplicate of a previous breach notification to OCR, it was combined and the two transactions were resolved together. AMR reported that an unauthorized third party gained access to its employee email accounts maintained and administered by its business associate (BA). The email accounts contained the protected health information (PHI) of 917 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, age, drivers’ license numbers, medical record numbers, account numbers, and Social Security numbers. As a result of this incident, AMR ended its business relationship with its business associate. The CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media. AMR implemented additional security controls and re-trained its workforce to prevent future email phishing attacks.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 912 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date Nov. 9, 2018, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13633)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • American Medical Response, Inc. Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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