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 July 9, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 9, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14130, row:5269)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 691 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, conditions, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In it mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.