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. 4, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- Thompson Coburn LLP, MO
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Nov. 4, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9621, row:760)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Thompson Coburn LLP, the business associate (BA), reported that it experienced a ransomware attack affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 305,088 individuals. The ePHI involved included demographic, clinical, and financial information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The BA took several corrective actions in response to the breach including improving its cybersecurity and providing additional HIPAA training to its workforce members.