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 May 8, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc., KS
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 8, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13827, row:4966)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc., reported that the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,300 individuals was exposed on an unsecured server. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, diagnoses, and conditions. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In addition, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring to affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its staff.