Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany

4,624 individuals · submitted October 27, 2017

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,624 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Following the breach, the BA implemented additional technical and security safeguards and retrained its staff to better protect ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
4,624
Submission date
October 27, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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