Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Hoyman Hong, M.D.

720 individuals · submitted March 17, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Dr. Hoyman Hong, reported that an employee sent an email that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 720 individuals without using the blind carbon copy feature. The ePHI involved included names and email addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce members and strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Hoyman Hong, M.D.
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
720
Submission date
March 17, 2021
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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