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 20, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 20, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11995, row:3134)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital - Flower Mound, reported that an employee sent emails that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 781 individuals without using the blind carbon copy function. The ePHI involved included names and email addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its staff on email security.