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Business Associate · Archived

Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall)

111,589 individuals · submitted January 3, 2019

About this report

Centerstone Insurance & Financial Services dba BenefitMall, the business associate (BA) of multiple covered entities, reported that on or around October 11, 2018, electronic protected health information (ePHI), had been exfiltrated as a result of an email phishing attack. The breach affected approximately 111,589 individuals and the ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and financial information. All affected individuals were notified as well as the media. As a result of OCR's investigation, the BA implemented new technical safeguards to its e-mail platform, provided targeted re-training to involved workforce members on its policies and procedures related to e-mail security, and provided affected individuals with one year of free credit monitoring services.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall)
State
TX
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
111,589
Submission date
January 3, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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