Health Data Breach Tracker/NM

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Artesia General Hospital

13,905 individuals · submitted August 27, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Artesia General Hospital, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 13,905 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, diagnoses, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Artesia General Hospital
State
NM
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
13,905
Submission date
August 27, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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