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 July 16, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- US HealthCenter, Inc., WI
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 16, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12784, row:3923)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
US HealthCenter, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,441 individuals. The PHI involved included names, birthdates, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to better protect PHI.