HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 15, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Legacy Community Health Services, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 15, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12831, row:3970)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Legacy Community Health Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 19,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.