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 July 16, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Brewer Porch Children's Center / The University of Alabama, AL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 16, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13318, row:4457)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The University of Alabama, Brewer Porch Children’s Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that it was the victim of a cyber-attack involving the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 727 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, financial information, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.