Health Data Breach Tracker/MO

Business Associate · Archived

Choice Rehabilitation

4,309 individuals · submitted December 29, 2018

About this report

The business associate (BA), Choice Rehabilitation, reported that employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,309 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, claims information, diagnoses, and other clinical and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI and retrained its staff on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Choice Rehabilitation
State
MO
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
4,309
Submission date
December 29, 2018
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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