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Legacy Community Health Services
ArchivedSubmitted 09/25/2020
Updated 22 hours ago ()
- State
- TX
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 228,009
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
The covered entity (CE), Legacy Community Health Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 228,009 patients. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.
Change history
- Sep 23, 2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
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