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 Dec. 17, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- University of Vermont Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 17, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13598, row:4737)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 32,470 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses/conditions, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Following the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.