Health Data Breach Tracker/HI

Business Associate · Archived

Hawaii Independent Physicians Association

18,770 individuals · submitted June 22, 2021

About this report

The business associate (BA), Hawaii Independent Physicians Association, reported that an employee’s email account may have been compromised affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 18,770 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its workforce members.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Hawaii Independent Physicians Association
State
HI
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
18,770
Submission date
June 22, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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