Health Data Breach Tracker/IL

Health Plan · Archived

Delta Dental of Illinois

5,092 individuals · submitted April 16, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Delta Dental of Illinois, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information of 5,092 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce member on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Delta Dental of Illinois
State
IL
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
5,092
Submission date
April 16, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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