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 April 13, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Metro Santurce, Inc. d/b/a Hospital Pavia Santurce and Metro Hato Rey, Inc. d/b/a Hospital Pavia Hato Rey
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- April 13, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13459, row:4598)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entities (CEs), Metro Santurce Inc. dba Hospital Pavia Santurce and Metro Hato Rey, Inc. dba Hospital Pavia Hato Rey, reported that both entities experienced a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 305,737 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of births, drivers’ license numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CEs notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In their mitigation efforts, the CEs strengthened their administrative and technical safeguards to better protect ePHI.