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 Sept. 9, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- Bon Secours Kentucky, KY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Sept. 9, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14988, row:6127)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Bon Secours Kentucky, discovered suspicious activity on its billing software from the user account of a former employee. The CE found it had not properly deactivated access, putting at risk the demographic and clinical information of 697 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and posted substitute notice on its website. Media notice was not performed because the number of affected individuals in each state was less than 500. In response to the breach, the CE revised its access monitoring policy and centralized its access allowance procedures. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.