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 Sept. 28, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Humana Inc, KY
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Sept. 28, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11884, row:3023)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Humana, reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) inadvertently mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 948 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, conditions, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS and the affected individuals. In response to the breach, the BA strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI.