Health Data Breach Tracker/AL

Business Associate · Archived

FastHealth Corporation

18,192 individuals · submitted June 29, 2017

About this report

FastHealth Corporation, a business associate (BA), discovered that it was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 18,192 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license information, Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, and medications prescribed. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
FastHealth Corporation
State
AL
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
18,192
Submission date
June 29, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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