Health Data Breach Tracker/AZ

Healthcare Provider · Archived

District Medical Group

10,190 individuals · submitted May 8, 2020

About this report

District Medical Group, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 10,190 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, medical records numbers, health insurance information, and limited clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and offered complimentary credit monitoring services to all affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE retrained its workforce on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications. The CE also implemented additional technical and security safeguards.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
District Medical Group
State
AZ
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
10,190
Submission date
May 8, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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