Health Data Breach Tracker/MD

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Frederick Memorial Hospital

760 individuals · submitted March 18, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Frederick Memorial Hospital, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 760 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. Following the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. Employees were retrained on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Frederick Memorial Hospital
State
MD
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
760
Submission date
March 18, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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