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Breach notice filed by Citizens Financial Corporation (November 2021)

Organization named: Citizens Financial Corporation Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure

What the sources say

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 Nov. 15, 2021.

Organization as reported
Citizens Financial Corporation, KY
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information as reported
Other
Submission date
Nov. 15, 2021
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11785, row:2924)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Citizens Financial Corporation, the business associate (BA), reported that an employee inadvertently published the protected health information (PHI) of 688 individuals via the Internet. The PHI involved included names, addresses, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the BA removed the PHI from the public repository and retrained its employees.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 688 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Nov. 15, 2021, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 11785)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Citizens Financial Corporation Named as a service provider Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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