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Breach notice filed by Palmetto Health (March 2019)

Organization named: Palmetto Health Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

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 March 29, 2019.

Organization as reported
Palmetto Health, SC
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
March 29, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13481, row:4620)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Palmetto Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 23,811 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. The CE retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR conducted an outreach presentation on the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 23,811 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date March 29, 2019, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13481)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Palmetto Health Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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