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 18, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- ZOLL Services LLC, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 18, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13497, row:4636)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Sonian, a subcontractor of the covered entity’s (CE) business associate (BA), Apptix, left a computer server port open during a data migration, causing a breach of 277,319 individuals’ protected health information. The types of PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, medical information, and in some instances, social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. It also reported the incident to law enforcement. Following the breach, the CE obtained written assurances from Sonian that it implemented technical safeguards to limit the risk of such incidents in the future, and it ensured that Sonian retrained its staff. OCR reviewed the CE’s BA agreement.