Health Data Breach Tracker/NC

Health Plan · Archived

Community Eye Care, LLC

149,804 individuals · submitted December 17, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Community Eye Care, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 149,804 individuals. The PHI involved included names, health insurance information, dates of birth, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring service and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Community Eye Care, LLC
State
NC
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
149,804
Submission date
December 17, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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