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 May 1, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Saint Louis University, MO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 1, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10761, row:1900)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Saint Louis University, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme affecting 48,392 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license and Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, ad security safeguards. All staff were retrained on email security precautions.