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 April 5, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Total Health Care Inc., MI
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 5, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12243, row:3382)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Total Health Care, reported that several employees were the subjects of an email phishing attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 221,454 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. Staff were retrained.