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 April 1, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Fort HealthCare Inc., WI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server, Other
- Submission date
- April 1, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12249, row:3388)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Fort HealthCare, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) inadvertently posted the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 784 individuals to the Internet. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.