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 Sept. 15, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Nuance Communications, Inc., MA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Sept. 15, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10462, row:1601)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Nuance Communications, the business associate (BA), reported that it experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,225,054 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications, and Social Security numbers. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the BA strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI.