Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

St Joseph Health System

405,000 individuals · submitted February 5, 2014

About this report

A computer server containing the records of 405,124 patients of the covered entity (CE), St. Joseph Health System, was hacked during a power surge. The electronic protected health information (ePHI) on the server included names, dates of birth, social security numbers, medical information, bank account information, and addresses. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE improved administrative and technical security and developed and revised policies and procedures addressing the breach. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
St Joseph Health System
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
405,000
Submission date
February 5, 2014
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

More breach reports in TX

More Hacking/IT Incident reports