Health Data Breach Tracker/AR

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Community Physicians Group

5,400 individuals · submitted June 20, 2019

About this report

Community Physicians Group, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 10,862 individuals. The ePHI involved included names and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical and security safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Community Physicians Group
State
AR
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
5,400
Submission date
June 20, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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