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Breach notice filed by Palo Verde Hospital (April 2025)

Organization named: Palo Verde Hospital 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 April 24, 2025.

Organization as reported
Palo Verde Hospital, CA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Network Server
Submission date
April 24, 2025
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9328, row:467)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Palo Verde Hospital, a covered entity (CE), reported that it experienced a ransomware attack affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 42,962 individuals. The ePHI involved included individuals’ addresses, ZIP codes, dates of birth, names, Social Security Numbers, other financial information, diagnoses, conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified individuals, the media, and HHS. In response to the breach, the CE implemented several corrective actions, including resetting all passwords, multifactor authentication, and additional technical safeguards.

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

Figures, per source

  • 42,962 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date April 24, 2025, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 9328)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Palo Verde Hospital 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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