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 Dec. 19, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Michigan Orthopaedic Surgeons, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 19, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10264, row:1403)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Michigan Orthopaedic Surgeons, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 67,477 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security precautions.