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 May 7, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Ascension - Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital Inc.,, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 7, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12167, row:3306)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Ascension – Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc., reported that a business associate (BA) was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,745 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, health insurance information, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained its staff.