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 Nov. 8, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Outreach Health Services, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 8, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13142, row:4281)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Outreach Health Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 60,414 individuals. The e PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, financial information, dates of birth, health insurance and clinical information, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. In response to the incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.