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 June 15, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Health Care Service Corp, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 15, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12077, row:3216)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Health Care Service Corporation, the covered entity (CE), reported that a vendor of its business associate (BA) experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 543 individuals. The PHI involved included names, birthdates, diagnoses, claims information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE and BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect sensitive data. All staff were retrained.