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Breach notice filed by Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc. (December 2017)

Organization named: Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

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. 28, 2017.

Organization as reported
Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc., MN
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Dec. 28, 2017
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13954, row:5093)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Miracle-Ear and Amplifon USA, Inc., business associates (BA) of Best Hearing Products, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of Best Hearing Products, Inc., was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 554 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. After the breach, the CE implemented administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its data and retrained its employees on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 554 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Dec. 28, 2017, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13954)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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