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. 2, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Reiter Affiliated Health and Welfare Plan, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Sept. 2, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11213, row:2352)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Reiter Affiliated Health and Welfare Plan, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 45,000 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and the BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its workforce members to better protect PHI.