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 15, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- IHS, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- April 15, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15114, row:6253)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
An employee of the covered entity’s (CE) network penetration testing team discovered protected health information (PHI) on open shares in a network attached storage device that could have affected 5,000 individuals if the IT department had not caught the problem in time. There was no indication of a breach and the CE immediately secured the website and notified the facility to delete all emails. The CE implemented a mandatory monthly training for all site managers to include a discussion of all site incidents.