Healthcare Provider · Archived
Freeport Regional Health Care Foundation
80,795 individuals · submitted July 31, 2020
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Freeport Regional Health Care Foundation, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 80,795 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. The CE retrained its workforce members on email security.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Freeport Regional Health Care Foundation
- State
- IL
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 80,795
- Submission date
- July 31, 2020
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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