Health Data Breach Tracker/FL

Health Plan · Archived

Doctors HealthCare Plans, Inc.

500 individuals · submitted April 7, 2020

About this report

Doctors HealthCare Plans, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme involving the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 9,766 individuals. The ePHI involved included names and health insurance information. In response to the breach, the CE sanctioned the employee involved, retrained its staff, and implemented new technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Doctors HealthCare Plans, Inc.
State
FL
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
500
Submission date
April 7, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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