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 June 18, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- American Medical Technologies, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record, Email
- Submission date
- June 18, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12821, row:3960)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), American Medical Technologies, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 47,767 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring to affected individuals. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional technical and administrative safeguards and retrained its employees on the email security.