Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Ascend Clinical, LLC

77,443 individuals · submitted October 19, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Ascend Clinical, LLC, reported that numerous employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 77,443 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, and medications prescribed. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided free credit monitoring, identity theft, and fraud protection services. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained its staff.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Ascend Clinical, LLC
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
77,443
Submission date
October 19, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

More breach reports in CA

More Hacking/IT Incident reports