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 May 6, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Spectrum Health Lakeland, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 6, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13422, row:4561)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Spectrum Health Lakeland, reported that an employee of its vendor was the subject of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,100 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and claims 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 and technical safeguards to better protect PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security precautions.