Health Plan · Archived
Defense Health Headquarters
3,500 individuals · submitted October 4, 2019
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Defense Health Headquarters, reported that a civilian Army employee accessed protected health information (PHI) in military electronic medical records systems and shared the information with other individuals for the purpose of identity theft. The breach affected approximately 3,500 individuals. The PHI disclosed included names, dates of birth, and social security numbers. Following the breach, the CE cooperated with the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of the former employee. The CE provided free credit monitoring to affected individuals.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Defense Health Headquarters
- State
- VA
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 3,500
- Submission date
- October 4, 2019
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Electronic Medical Record
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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