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. 3, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Nippon Life Insurance Company of America, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 3, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11742, row:2881)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Nippon Life Insurance Company of America, reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 4,109 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, 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, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.