Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Business Associate · Archived

Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc.

447,354 individuals · submitted June 26, 2020

About this report

Benefit Recovery Specialists, a business associate (BA), reported that it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 447,354 patients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA retrained its employees on phishing and security awareness and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Benefit Recovery Specialists, Inc.
State
TX
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
447,354
Submission date
June 26, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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