Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Asian Health Services

6,270 individuals · submitted May 25, 2023

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Asian Health Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information of approximately 6,270 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, genders, diagnoses codes, lab results, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided free credit monitoring and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. Staff were retrained on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Asian Health Services
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
6,270
Submission date
May 25, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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