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 Nov. 26, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Ivy Rehab Network, Inc. and its affiliated companies, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 26, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13118, row:4257)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Ivy Rehab Network, Inc., reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 125,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, financial information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE strengthen its administrative and technical safeguards and retrained all workforce members on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.