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 31, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Confidio, LLC, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 31, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12934, row:4073)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Confidio, LLC, a business associate (BA), reported that several of its employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 14,016 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, clinical information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented new administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its workforce members on how to better protect ePHI.