Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Youngs Counseling, PLLC

790 individuals · submitted December 30, 2024

About this report

Youngs Counseling, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee disclosed the protected health information (PHI) of 790 individuals when emailing a newsletter and exposing all of the emails. The PHI involved email addresses only. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach and OCR’s investigation, the CE revised its policies and procedures, implemented additional technical safeguards, sanctioned its workforce member and retrained staff.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Youngs Counseling, PLLC
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
790
Submission date
December 30, 2024
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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