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 March 1, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Community Care Alliance, RI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 1, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9419, row:558)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Community Care Alliance, discovered that an unauthorized actor had access to its local server from July 1, 2024, to July 5, 2024, due to ransomware attack. The breach may have affected 111,804 individuals and PHI including clinical, demographic and other treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals, the media, the HHS Secretary, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened and implemented a variety of new technical safeguards, as well as implementing additional staff training about cybersecurity. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the timeliness requirements of the Breach Notification Rule. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.