Health Data Breach Tracker/VA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Sentara Healthcare

72,121 individuals · submitted November 19, 2021

About this report

Sentara Healthcare, the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a ransomware attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 72,121 individuals. The PHI involved included addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other identifiers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals and the media. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the Breach Notification Rule.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Sentara Healthcare
State
VA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
72,121
Submission date
November 19, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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