HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Oct. 13, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Practice Transformation Solutions, LLC, VA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Oct. 13, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12591, row:3730)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A business associate (BA), Practice Transformation Solutions, LLC, was informed by its covered entity (CE) that one of the its employees was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 1,678 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, patient account numbers, and health insurance and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.