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 13, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Arkansas Urology Associates PA, AR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 13, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9274, row:413)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Arkansas Urology Associates, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the target of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 642 individuals. The PHI involved included demographic and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. Staff were retrained.