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 19, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 19, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13745, row:4884)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE) reported that on April 14, 2018, a business associate (BA), Golden Heart Administrative Professionals, Inc., was subject to a ransomware attack that encrypted approximately 6,346 individuals' protected health information (PHI) maintained in its computer system. The types of PHI encrypted included demographic, financial, and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted a link to the notice on its website, offered complimentary credit monitoring, and provided a dedicated toll-free number to answer inquiries. The CE ended the BA agreement with the BA; the BA returned the physical records to the CE and destroyed all the CE’s PHI from its systems. OCR provided substantial technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.