Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Health Plan · Archived

Elderplan, Inc.

65,235 individuals · submitted August 5, 2017

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Elderplan, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 65,235 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and 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
Elderplan, Inc.
State
NY
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
65,235
Submission date
August 5, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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