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 22, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Friendship Community Care, Inc., AR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 22, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12816, row:3955)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Friendship Community Care, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 10,845 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, drivers’ license information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, health insurance information, facial photographs, and medications prescribed. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained its workforce to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.