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. 9, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Magnolia Pediatrics, LA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record, Email, Network Server
- Submission date
- Oct. 9, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13191, row:4330)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Magnolia Pediatrics, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 11,109 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, health insurance information, diagnoses, treatment information, and laboratory results. In its mitigation efforts, the CE terminated it business associate agreement with its information technology vendor and implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its staff to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.