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 March 19, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Insulet Corporation, MA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 19, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12283, row:3422)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Insulet Corporation, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 9,050 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA retrained its staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.