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 28, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Jacobi Medical Center, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 28, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14807, row:5946)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation - Jacobi Medical Center, reported that a former employee sent emails to her personal and professional email accounts that included the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 90,060 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.