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 Oct. 27, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Pause Pain & Wellness, MS
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Oct. 27, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10389, row:1528)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Pause Pain & Wellness, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 777 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and email addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE and BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Workforce members were retrained to better protect sensitive data.