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 Feb. 3, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Eduction, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Feb. 3, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13022, row:4161)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 959 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, financial information, and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented new administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.