- State
- NY
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 3,977
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- 9/23/2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- 9/23/2026
OCR description
The covered entity (CE), OmniSeq, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,977 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of births, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, and addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, law enforcement, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security.
Change history
- 9/23/2026Added 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
Records are reproduced as published; entity names and figures are OCR's.