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 July 8, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Multnomah County Department of Human Services, OR
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- July 8, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13341, row:4480)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Multnomah County Department of Human Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 713 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, and identification numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE retrained its workforce members. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional technical safeguards.