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 Jan. 25, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Valley Professionals Community Health Center, IN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Jan. 25, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13558, row:4697)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Valley Professionals Community Health Center, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 12,029 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. A call center was established for questions or concerns. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.