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. 31, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Simpson Senior Services, Inc., PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 31, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12414, row:3553)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Simpson Senior Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 3,529 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, lab results, medications, diagnoses, and additional treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. All staff were retrained.