Business Associate · Archived
Absolute Dental Services
10,037 individuals · submitted August 21, 2023
About this report
The business associate (BA), Absolute Dental Services, reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 10,037 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses and conditions, full face photos, and treatment information. The BA provided breach notification to the affected individuals, the media, the HHS Secretary, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In response to the breach, the BA implemented multi-factor authentication for all email accounts, increased password complexity requirements, and implemented procedures for clients to send PHI to the BA using a secure file share or secure portal, rather than email.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Absolute Dental Services
- State
- NC
- Entity type
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 10,037
- Submission date
- August 21, 2023
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- Yes
- OCR status
- Archived
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