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. 16, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Paragon Health, P.C., MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 16, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13220, row:4359)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Paragon Health, P.C., reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack. The email account contained the protected health information (PHI) of 4,674 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information, drivers’ license information, passport information, clinical information, lab results, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE offered free credit monitoring services to affected individuals. The CE also implemented technical safeguards to better protect its PHI and trained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.