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 Aug. 21, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Elwyn, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Aug. 21, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12733, row:3872)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Elwyn, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 16,579 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.