Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

East House Corporation

1,306 individuals · submitted February 17, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), East House Corporation, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,306 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
East House Corporation
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,306
Submission date
February 17, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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