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 March 25, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Superior Dental Care Alliance, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 25, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13490, row:4629)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Superior Dental Care Alliance, a business associate (BA), reported that it was the victim of an email phishing scheme affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 41,551 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, addresses, claims information, and financial information. Interestingly, the CE and BA merged into a single entity. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.