Health Data Breach Tracker/NE

Health Plan · Archived

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.

39,675 individuals · submitted July 8, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation, reported that multiple employees were subjected to an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 69,106 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, member identification numbers, and life insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security precautions and on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
State
NE
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
39,675
Submission date
July 8, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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