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 March 22, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Reliant Rehabilitation, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 22, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12279, row:3418)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Reliant Rehabilitation, a business associate (BA), reported that a workforce member was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 614 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, treatment information, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the BA retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications and strengthened its administrative safeguards.