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 Dec. 6, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Beech Brook, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 6, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13102, row:4241)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Beech Brook, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 2,636 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.