Health Data Breach Tracker/FL

Health Plan · Archived

Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities

1,951 individuals · submitted June 1, 2018

About this report

The covered entity, (CE), Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,951 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, other identifiers, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities
State
FL
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
1,951
Submission date
June 1, 2018
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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