Health Data Breach Tracker/WY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center

17,549 individuals · submitted December 10, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 17,549 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
State
WY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
17,549
Submission date
December 10, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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