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 May 12, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Walnut Place, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 12, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14188, row:5327)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Walnut Place, experienced a ransomware attack on one of its computer servers containing electronic protected health information (ePHI). The types of ePHI on the server included the demographic, clinical, and health insurance information of approximately 6,500 individuals. Upon discovering the breach, the CE contained and stopped the attack by removing infected files from the server. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE improved administrative and technically safeguards and retrained staff on observing and reporting malicious software. OCR obtained assurance that the CE implemented corrective actions to enhance its security controls.