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 July 23, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation ("YNHHS"), CT
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 23, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11984, row:3123)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 14,603 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect PHI.