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 Feb. 14, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Cooper University Health Care, NJ
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Feb. 14, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11624, row:2763)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Cooper University Health Care, reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1039 individuals. The PHI involved included, names, dates of birth, claims information, medical record numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security.