HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of July 1, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware, DE
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 1, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9825, row:964)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware, the covered entity (CE), reported that a vendor of its business associate (BA) experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 2,823 individuals. The PHI involved included names, phone numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment and computer access information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE, BA and its vendor, implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data.