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 26, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Personal Touch Holding Corp., NY
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 26, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12263, row:3402)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Personal Touch Holding Corporation, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 753,107 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the discovery of the incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.