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 12, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Merit Health Insurance Company, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Email, Network Server
- Submission date
- June 12, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12844, row:3983)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Merit Healthcare Insurance Company, the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a ransomware attack. This case is duplicative of an investigation being conducted into the BA that affected multiple CEs. Therefore, this case is closed and consolidated into an existing investigation.