Health Data Breach Tracker/GA

Business Associate · Archived

Ciox Health

43,033 individuals · submitted December 30, 2021

About this report

The business associate (BA), Ciox Health, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 43,033 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Ciox Health
State
GA
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
43,033
Submission date
December 30, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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