HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of July 22, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc., VA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 22, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11291, row:2430)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Benefit Plan Administrators, the business associate (BA), reported that it experienced a cyber- attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 5,004 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, gender, claims information, medications, and diagnoses. In response to the incident, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.