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 Dec. 11, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- HMC Healthworks, Inc., FL
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 11, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12452, row:3591)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
HMC Healthworks, Inc., a business associate (BA), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 985 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and health insurance information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.