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 30, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center, WV
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 30, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12763, row:3902)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center, reported that employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,127 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In addition, it offered the affected individuals complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services. In response to the breach the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.