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 June 11, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Axis Neuromonitoring, Inc., d/b/a Apex IONM Solutions, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 11, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12848, row:3987)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Axis Neuromonitoring, Inc., dba Apex IONM Solutions, the business associate (BA), reported that a workforce member was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,876 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and financial information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE sanctioning the workforce member responsible, strengthened its administrative safeguards, and retrained its staff on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.