How do I know if I am affected by the Friendship House, Inc. data breach?

Friendship House, Inc. is mailing notification letters directly to affected individuals. If you have received care or services from Friendship House, Inc. in the period leading up to April 2025 and you have not received a letter, contact the entity directly. 501 individuals were confirmed affected in the HHS OCR filing.

What data was exposed in the Friendship House, Inc. breach?

According to the notification letter and supporting filings, the compromised data included: Not publicly disclosed beyond 'Network Server' on the OCR portal.

Was Friendship House, Inc. attacked by a ransomware group?

No threat actor has publicly claimed responsibility for the Friendship House, Inc. breach. The incident is categorized in the HHS OCR portal as a hacking.

Should I file a lawsuit over the Friendship House, Inc. data breach?

As of the latest update, no class action complaints have been publicly filed against Friendship House, Inc. for this breach. Plaintiffs' firm interest may develop. We are not a law firm and cannot give legal advice.

What is HealthConsent and how does it help with the Friendship House, Inc. breach?

HealthConsent is an independent health-data privacy service. We help affected individuals stop the ongoing flow of their health information by filing HIPAA restriction requests, FTC Health Breach Notification Rule deletion requests, and state-law deletion requests across providers, insurers, Health Information Exchanges, prescription networks, and data brokers. Credit monitoring offered by Friendship House, Inc. addresses identity-theft risk; HealthConsent addresses the longer-tail problem of your exposed health data continuing to be sold and shared by other entities downstream.

Active breach tracker NE Disclosed April 4, 2025

Friendship House, Inc. Data Breach 2025: 501 Affected · Hacking/IT Incident · NE. Filed With HHS OCR. What To Do.

Friendship House, Inc. (NE) filed a HIPAA breach notification with the HHS Office for Civil Rights on April 04, 2025, reporting 501 affected individuals in a Hacking/IT Incident event at Network Server. The HHS OCR portal entry is the primary public record; further details are not yet publicly disclosed on this page.

You have options. Scroll for the exact action steps, what your provider’s response covers, and what your health data needs beyond credit monitoring.

By HealthConsent Editorial Last updated April 4, 2025 Sources & methodology

Timeline

Apr 4, 2025

Disclosed publicly

Apr 4, 2025

Disclosed publicly

Data exposed

Contact & insurance

Phishing + targeted scams

Not publicly disclosed beyond 'Network Server' on the OCR portal

If you received a letter

Your action plan, in five steps.

You have more rights than the notification letter explains. Each step below is a concrete thing you can do today. Full detail and timing in the sections that follow.

Accept credit monitoring

It’s the floor of the response. Take it.

Freeze your credit

Free at Equifax, Experian, TransUnion.

File IRS Form 14039

Prevent fraudulent tax return under your SSN.

Review your EOBs

Insurance statements catch medical identity theft early.

Stop the ongoing flow

Credit monitoring doesn’t cover your health records. HealthConsent does.

Jump to step 5: protect my health data

Friendship House, Inc. filed a HIPAA breach notification with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on April 04, 2025, reporting 501 affected individuals in a Hacking/IT Incident event at Network Server. The entity is a Healthcare Provider based in NE.

This page reflects what the HHS OCR portal entry publicly discloses. Specific data elements exposed, attacker attribution, response details, credit-monitoring offerings, and any class-action filings are not yet summarized here. We update each page as the entity’s own notification letter, state attorney general filings, established trade press, or court filings become available.

What to do if you may be affected

Until the entity publishes its substitute notice or your individual notification letter arrives, the protective steps to take are generic but useful:

Freeze your credit with the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies. It is free, takes about ten minutes per bureau, and is the single highest-leverage step against identity theft.
Watch for a notification letter at the address on file with Friendship House, Inc.. Notification letters typically follow the OCR filing by a few weeks. Read it carefully — it will list the specific data elements exposed and any complimentary credit-monitoring offered.
Bookmark this page. We update it as new information becomes publicly available.

Sources on this page

HHS Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal — the federal regulatory record of this breach.

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Sources & further reading

HHS Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal

Official HHS OCR Breach Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov

About this page

This page is compiled from public regulatory filings, the breached entity’s own disclosures, and reporting from established healthcare-privacy outlets. Some sections are assembled with the help of automated research and may contain errors, summaries that lag the underlying source, or details that have since been revised. Treat it as a starting point, not legal advice or an authoritative record. If you spot something inaccurate, the linked sources above are the canonical record. For questions about your individual situation, contact the breached entity directly or consult a licensed attorney.