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Breach notice filed by Roper St. Francis Healthcare (January 2019)

Organization named: Roper St. Francis Healthcare Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

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 Jan. 29, 2019.

Organization as reported
Roper St. Francis Healthcare, SC
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Jan. 29, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13552, row:4691)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

On November 15, 2018, and November 19, 2018, a number of employees followed a link from a phishing email and provided their credentials, allowing an unauthorized individual to gain access to their email accounts and the protected health information (PHI) of 35,253 patients. Upon discovering the breach, the covered entity (CE), Roper St. Francis Healthcare, immediately forced a password reset on all affected users' email accounts. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also implemented monthly audits on its email inboxes and scheduled payroll deposits and implemented multifactor authentication for access by external users. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 35,253 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Jan. 29, 2019, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13552)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Roper St. Francis Healthcare Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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