HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of April 27, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Meridian Health Services Corp., IN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 27, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12901, row:4040)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Meridian Health Services Corporation, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 111,372 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, state identification numbers, and health insurance and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. 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.