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 Oct. 31, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Oct. 31, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11083, row:2222)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, reported that its business associate (BA) inadvertently made the protected health information (PHI) of 85,466 individuals viewable over the Internet. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and the CE and BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Staff were retrained to better protect PHI.