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 19, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- CHI St. Luke's Health Memorial, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 19, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12817, row:3956)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,045 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, diagnoses, and other identifiers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its workforce members on email security.