HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Oct. 4, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Euphemia R. Brumskine, MD, LLC, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Oct. 4, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13194, row:4333)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Euphemia Brumskine, MD, LLC, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 2,800 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, diagnoses, health insurance information, and clinical data. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. The CE also retrained its staff.