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 Jan. 20, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Caring Communities, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Jan. 20, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11660, row:2799)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Caring Communities, reported that its third-party cloud storage vendor was the victim of a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,659 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals and terminated its business relationship with the third-party cloud storage vendor.