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 June 8, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Email, Other
- Submission date
- June 8, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15611, row:6750)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity's (CE) staff member disclosed an unencrypted Microsoft Excel graph to a non-covered entity physician who re-disclosed it to a medical education organization to be used in a presentation. In addition, the medical education organization posted the presentation slides on its website. The graph contained the protected health information (PHI) of 569 individuals and included names, telephone numbers, social security numbers, ages, cities and states of residence, medical record numbers, and clinical information. Upon discovery of the breach, the CE ensured that the information was removed from the website and deleted, sanctioned the workforce member responsible, and retrained its workforce on the use of a data loss prevention tool and the risks of embedded PHI. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE provided OCR with evidence of its technical safeguards and security awareness initiatives and provided assurance that it implemented the corrective action listed above.