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 March 28, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Mayo Clinic, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 28, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9381, row:520)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Mayo Clinic, reported that a workforce member emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 1,869 individuals to a personal email address and then further disclosed the PHI to unauthorized individuals. The PHI involved included clinical and demographic information. The CE notified HHS and the affected individuals. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.