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 Dec. 5, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Sunrise Community Health, CO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 5, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13107, row:4246)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Sunrise Community Health, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 18,404 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding its HIPAA Security Rule obligations.