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 1, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance, LLC, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 1, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11339, row:2478)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance, LLC, the covered entity (CE), reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 130,922 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, clinical information including diagnostics, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. All staff were retrained.