Healthcare Provider · Archived
Children's Mercy Hospital
65,930 individuals · submitted January 31, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Children’s Mercy Hospital, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 65,930 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE retrained all employees on email security and implemented additional technical safeguards.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- State
- MO
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 65,930
- Submission date
- January 31, 2018
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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