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Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc.
ArchivedSubmitted 06/26/2020
Updated 2 hours ago ()
- State
- TX
- Covered entity type
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 447,354
- Business associate present
- Yes
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Network Server
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 26, 2026
OCR description
Benefit Recovery Specialists, a business associate (BA), reported that it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 447,354 patients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA retrained its employees on phishing and security awareness and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI.
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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