HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of July 13, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Wise Health System, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 13, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13327, row:4466)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Wise Health System, reported that employee(s) were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 127,088 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to its email environment. The CE also retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.