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 Sept. 25, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Women's Care Florida, LLC, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Sept. 25, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13210, row:4349)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Women’s Care Florida, reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 527,310 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice to its website. The CE also provided complementary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE offered implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. All staff were retrained.