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 22, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Inc. d/b/a MJHS, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 22, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14578, row:5717)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Metropolitan Jewish Health System dba MJHS, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 50,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other treatment and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the discovery of the incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.