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 15, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 15, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13322, row:4461)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA), Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc., doing business as American Medical Collection Agency, was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 34,424 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, treatment information, and financial data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft mitigation services. The CE ended its business relationship with the BA.