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 Sept. 26, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Kaiser Permanente, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 26, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13209, row:4348)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information of 990 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, gender, diagnoses, health insurance information, clinical information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.