Employees Retirement System of Texas

The covered entity (CE), Employees Retirement System of Texas, discovered one of its members was able to view other individuals’ protected health information (PHI) after the member manipulated an editable search field within the CE’s online member portal. The PHI potentially affected included the names and social security numbers of approximately 1,248,263 individuals. As a result of the breach, the CE improved safeguards and trained its workforce members on better practices to protect PHI. Further, the CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.