HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 28, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Summa Health, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 28, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13349, row:4488)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Summa Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 8,488 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, email addresses, diagnoses/conditions, medications prescribed, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.