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 Jan. 23, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Aprendamos Family of Services, NM
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Email
- Submission date
- Jan. 23, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9473, row:612)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Aprendamos Family of Services, reported that a workforce member exported patients’ protected health information (PHI) on to an excel spreadsheet and emailed it to her personal email account prior to her departure from the CE. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses and conditions of approximately 1,996 individuals. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals and the media. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional HIPAA training and additional technical safeguards.