Health Data Breach Tracker/KS

Business Associate · Archived

Benefit Management, LLC

29,119 individuals · submitted January 27, 2023

About this report

The business associate (BA), Benefit Management, reported that multiple employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 29,119 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license and Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The BA notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Benefit Management, LLC
State
KS
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
29,119
Submission date
January 27, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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