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 Dec. 23, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- C.E. Niehoff & Company, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Dec. 23, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11711, row:2850)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
C.E. Niehoff & Company, the covered entity (CE), reported that it experienced a cyberattack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,509 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to further safeguard PHI.