Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Hunt Regional Medical Center

3,700 individuals · submitted July 12, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Hunt Regional Medical Center, reported that it was notified by the FBI that it was the victim of a cyber-attack involving the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 323,832 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, and other demographic information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. After the breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its staff.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Hunt Regional Medical Center
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,700
Submission date
July 12, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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