Health Plan · Archived
Altoona Area School District
9,196 individuals · submitted April 11, 2022
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Altoona Area School District, a hybrid entity with a self-funded health plan health care component, reported that it experienced a ransomware attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 9,196 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial and health insurance information, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Altoona Area School District
- State
- PA
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 9,196
- Submission date
- April 11, 2022
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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