Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Corpus Christi Rehabilitation Hospital

507 individuals · submitted April 10, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Corpus Christi Rehabilitation Hospital, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 507 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. All employees were also retrained on the proper methods of detecting and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Corpus Christi Rehabilitation Hospital
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
507
Submission date
April 10, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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