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 Dec. 29, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Choice Rehabilitation, MO
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 29, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13584, row:4723)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Choice Rehabilitation, reported that employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,309 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, claims information, diagnoses, and other clinical and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI and retrained its staff on email security.