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 Sept. 30, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Oswego Health, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 30, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12615, row:3754)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Oswego Health, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 13,619 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, medical diagnoses, medications prescribed, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The CE also provided complimentary credit monitoring services. Following the breach, the CE strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained its staff on email security.