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 Dec. 27, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Medical Center Barbour, AL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Dec. 27, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10237, row:1376)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Medical Center Barbour, detected ransomware in its network environment that compromised the affected the protected health information (PHI) of 61,014 individuals. The PHI involved includes names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license and Social Security numbers, diagnoses and conditions, lab results, financial information, and medications. The CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals, the media, the HHS Secretary, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE reset all passwords and implemented a series of improved technical safeguards.