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 May 6, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Guardian Pharmacy of Cincinnati LLC dba Mullaney’s, A Guardian Pharmacy, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 6, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11477, row:2616)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Guardian Pharmacy of Cincinnati dba Mullaney’s, A Guardian Pharmacy, reported that an employee emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 1,720 individuals to the wrong recipient. The PHI involved included names, addresses, and medications. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The CE’s mitigation efforts included administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. All staff were retrained.