Health Data Breach Tracker/MD

Health Plan · Archived

CareFirst Administrators

14,538 individuals · submitted November 18, 2022

About this report

The covered entity (CE), CareFirst Administrators, reported that multiple employees of its business associate (BA) were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 14,538 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of births, addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications, other treatment information, and claims information. The BA notified the affected individuals; the CE notified HHS, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals while the BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
CareFirst Administrators
State
MD
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
14,538
Submission date
November 18, 2022
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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