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. 20, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Louisiana State University- Health Care Services Division, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 20, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12494, row:3633)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Louisiana State University - Health Care Services Division, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 58,005 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and financial and claims information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. All staff were retrained on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.