Health Data Breach Tracker/WA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Community Psychiatric Clinic

5,866 individuals · submitted August 15, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Community Psychiatric Clinic, reported that it was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 5,866 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, addresses, birthdates, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, claims information, and financial data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. After OCR’s investigation, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications and implemented additional technical safeguards. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Community Psychiatric Clinic
State
WA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
5,866
Submission date
August 15, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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