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 June 1, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 1, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13797, row:4936)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity, (CE), Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,951 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, other identifiers, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.