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 Nov. 13, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Optum Financial Services, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Nov. 13, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9093, row:232)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Optum Financial Services, reported that an employee of its subcontractor mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 2,124 individuals to the wrong individuals. The PHI involved clinical, demographic and financial information. The BA notified HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the BA’s subcontractor implemented additional technical and administrative safeguards and retrained the applicable workforce member to better protect PHI.