Health Data Breach Tracker/ME

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Community Dental

1,523 individuals · submitted November 17, 2023

About this report

Community Dental reported that it was the target of a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,523 individuals. The PHI involved clinical and demographic information. Following the discovery of the incident, Community Dental notified HHS, the affected individuals and the media. In response to the incident, Community Dental implemented multifactor authentication for all administrative access and deployed endpoint detection and response tools to ensure the incident was contained. It also upgraded its managed security services to include managed patching, enhanced endpoint protection, and replacement of unsupported network equipment.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Community Dental
State
ME
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,523
Submission date
November 17, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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