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 Nov. 23, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- The Tree House Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Nov. 23, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12486, row:3625)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The Tree House Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County, a business associate (BA), reported that documents that contained the protected health information (PHI) of 514 individuals was viewable via the Internet. The PHI involved included names and medical information. As a result of this incident, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI.