Health Plan · Archived
1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan
3,039 individuals · submitted January 13, 2023
About this report
1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan, the covered entity (CE), reported that employees experienced an email phishing incident that resulted in the deployment of ransomware that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 3,039 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its technical safeguards and retrained its workforce on identifying potential phishing schemes.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- 1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan
- State
- GA
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 3,039
- Submission date
- January 13, 2023
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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