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 Jan. 29, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Montefiore Medical Center, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Jan. 29, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12373, row:3512)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Montefiore Medical Center, reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 1,670 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, health insurance information, and partial Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data.