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 Nov. 25, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Penn-Mar Human Services, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 25, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13120, row:4259)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Penn-Mar Human Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 536 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. The CE also retrained its workforce members on email security.