Health Data Breach Tracker/IL

Business Associate · Archived

Flexible Benefit Service Corporation

5,123 individuals · submitted February 16, 2018

About this report

Flexible Benefit Service Corporation, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack. This breach affected 5,232 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also offered theft protection and credit monitoring services to all affected individuals. As a result of this breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its PHI and retrained its employees on how to detect email phishing schemes. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Flexible Benefit Service Corporation
State
IL
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
5,123
Submission date
February 16, 2018
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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