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Breach notice filed by Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc. (June 2020)

Organization named: Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

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 26, 2020.

Organization as reported
Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc., TX
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Network Server
Submission date
June 26, 2020
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12807, row:3946)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Benefit Recovery Specialists, a business associate (BA), reported that it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 447,354 patients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA retrained its employees on phishing and security awareness and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 447,354 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date June 26, 2020, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 12807)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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