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 April 28, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Bellevue Hospital Center, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 28, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14808, row:5947)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Bellevue Hospital Center, reported that an employee sent an email containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,334 individuals to an authorized party. The ePHI involved included names, email addresses, phone numbers, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrate and technical safeguards and sanctioned the responsible employee. All workforce members were retrained on the proper methods of safeguarding ePHI.