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. 11, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Express MRI, LLC (Norcross), GA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Aug. 11, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11962, row:3101)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Express MRI-Norcross, reported that am employee of its covered entity (CE) was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,707 individuals. The PHI involved included names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI. Workforce members were retrained on email security.