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 3, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 3, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11589, row:2728)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme affecting 2,921 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security precautions.