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 Sept. 29, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- University Muslim Medical Association, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 29, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12619, row:3758)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), University Muslim Medical Association, reported that a former employee emailed documents containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 563 individuals to her personal email account. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, and medical diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.