Health Data Breach Tracker/WV

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center

3,127 individuals · submitted July 30, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center, reported that employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,127 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In addition, it offered the affected individuals complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services. In response to the breach the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center
State
WV
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,127
Submission date
July 30, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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