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. 12, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, DE
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 12, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12511, row:3650)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On September 16, 2020, the Covered Entity (CE) learned that an unauthorized The covered entity (CE), Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, reported that an employee mailed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 9,930 individuals to an unauthorized person. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, lab results, and clinical information. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of safeguarding its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.