Health Data Breach Tracker/CT

Health Plan · Archived

Aetna ACE

4,222 individuals · submitted December 27, 2022

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Aetna ACE, reported that several employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 4,222 individuals. The PHI involved included names, medications, diagnoses, and health insurance and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. Staff were retrained on email security precautions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Aetna ACE
State
CT
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
4,222
Submission date
December 27, 2022
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

More breach reports in CT

More Hacking/IT Incident reports