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. 5, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- University Hospital, NJ
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Nov. 5, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11804, row:2943)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), University Hospital, reported that a workforce member impermissibly accessed the protected health (PHI) of 10,067 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services, sanctioned the workforce member responsible for the breach, and retrained its workforce members to better protect its PHI.