Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Health Plan · Archived

City of Philadelphia

6,107 individuals · submitted October 20, 2023

About this report

The City of Philadelphia, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 6,107 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, clinical and financial information, and other identifiers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented an enhanced alert notification to improve email monitoring detection.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
City of Philadelphia
State
PA
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
6,107
Submission date
October 20, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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