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. 3, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Mayo Clinic, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Nov. 3, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10372, row:1511)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Mayo Clinic, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee inadvertently submitted the protected health information (PHI) of 1,152 individuals to an academic journal; the data was then published via the Internet. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, lab results, medical records numbers, gender, race, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect PHI. Staff were retrained.