HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 23, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine, PC, MS
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 23, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12059, row:3198)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine, PC, reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,908 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, and clinical and health insurance information. The CE failed to provide timely breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, or the media. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its technical safeguards, revised its policies and procedures and retrained its entire workforce. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance pertaining to the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.