HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 6, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Sharp Community Medical Group, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 6, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9278, row:417)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Sharp Community Medical Group, reported that its business associate, Episource, LLC, identified unusual activity in its systems that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 26,976 individual CE members. The PHI involved clinical and demographic information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.