Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Cornerstone Care, Inc.

12,081 individuals · submitted February 25, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Cornerstone Care, LLC, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 12,081 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. As a result of this incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Cornerstone Care, Inc.
State
PA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
12,081
Submission date
February 25, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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