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 March 19, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 19, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12285, row:3424)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 104,808 individuals. The PHI involved included names, medical record numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. All staff were retrained.