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 13350, row:4489)
- 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 containing the protected health information (PHI) of 2,904 individuals. The PHI involved included names, email addresses, medical record numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information, and financial data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. To mitigate the breach, the CE implemented administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its data. The CE also retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.