Health Data Breach Tracker/AR

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Conway Regional Health System

37,000 individuals · submitted August 23, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Conway Regional Health System, reported that it was the victim of a cyber-attack involving an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 37,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, medications prescribed, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. Following this incident, the CE improved technical safeguards to its email environment. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Conway Regional Health System
State
AR
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
37,000
Submission date
August 23, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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