By HFT Staff

Cahaba Center for Mental Health (Cahaba) is providing notice of a recent data event that may have impacted the confidentiality of information for certain individuals. Cahaba is notifying individuals of the event. This notice provides information about the event, Cahaba's response, and steps individuals can take. 

On March 28, 2025, Cahaba identified suspicious activity in an employee email account. In response, Cahaba promptly took steps to secure its email system and initiated an investigation into the nature and scope of the activity. The investigation determined that there was unauthorized access to a Cahaba email account on separate occasions between January 22, 2025, and March 28, 2025. While the investigation did not identify whether information within the account was actually accessed, this activity could not be ruled out. Therefore, Cahaba conducted a comprehensive and thorough review of the contents of the involved account to identify the presence of any sensitive information.  

This review and investigation was recently completed and determined the types of information for certain individuals was present in the involved email account at the time of the activity included names, demographic information, patient identification and case numbers, dates of birth, medical diagnosis and treatment information, prescription information, driver's license or state identification numbers, Social Security numbers, financial account information, health insurance information, disability information and passport numbers. Please note, Cahaba is not aware of any actual or attempted misuse of this information as a result of this incident and is providing notice out of an abundance of caution. 

Upon becoming aware of this event, Cahaba moved quickly to confirm the security of its email system and began an investigation to identify potentially impacted individuals and provide them with notice. Cahaba is also reviewing existing policies and procedures and have implemented additional safeguards to prevent a similar event in the future.