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 March 4, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- St. Francis Physician Services, SC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 4, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13512, row:4651)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), St. Francis Physician Services, reported that it was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 32,178 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, addresses, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE disabled and decommissioned all its legacy electronic medical systems and transferred all data contained on those networks to Bon Secours Mercy Health.