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. 30, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Ciox Health, GA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 30, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11697, row:2836)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Ciox Health, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 43,033 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.