Health Plan · Archived
Employees Retirement System of Texas
1,248,263 individuals · submitted October 15, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Employees Retirement System of Texas, discovered one of its members was able to view other individuals’ protected health information (PHI) after the member manipulated an editable search field within the CE’s online member portal. The PHI potentially affected included the names and social security numbers of approximately 1,248,263 individuals. As a result of the breach, the CE improved safeguards and trained its workforce members on better practices to protect PHI. Further, the CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Employees Retirement System of Texas
- State
- TX
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 1,248,263
- Submission date
- October 15, 2018
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Other
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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