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 July 15, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Sunrise Medical Laboratories, Inc., NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 15, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13320, row:4459)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Sunrise Medical Laboratories, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA), Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc., doing business as American Medical Collection Agency, was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 401,901 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of service, birthdates, clinical information, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. As a consequence of this breach incident, the CE terminated its business relationship with the BA.