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 June 17, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Yale New Haven Hospital, CT
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 17, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11365, row:2504)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Yale New Haven Hospital, reported that a file containing the protected health information (PHI) of 19,496 individuals was inadvertently uploaded to a public facing website. The PHI involved included names, telephone numbers, email addresses, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.