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 20, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Community Physicians Group, AR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 20, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13360, row:4499)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Community Physicians Group, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 10,862 individuals. The ePHI involved included names and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical and security safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.