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 20, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Scott Regional Hospital, MS
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 20, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12144, row:3283)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Scott Regional Hospital, reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a ransomware attack affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,056 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and medications prescribed and prescribing information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected individuals. In response to the breach, the BA retained a third-party forensic investigator that identified the vulnerability which allowed the breach to occur; the BA remediated this issue in its mitigation efforts to better secure its sensitive data. The BA also implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.