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 March 14, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Welts, White, & Fontaine PC, NH
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 14, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9401, row:540)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Welts, White, & Fontaine PC, reported that an unauthorized actor may have accessed its network, affecting the protected health information (PH) of 500 individuals. The PHI involved included clinical, demographic, and financial information. The BA notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals, implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.