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 Oct. 30, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Sea Mar Community Health Centers, WA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Oct. 30, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11821, row:2960)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Sea Mar Community Health Centers, the covered entity (CE), experienced a breach that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 688,000 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, identification numbers, X-ray images, and claims and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect PHI.