Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Human Services, Inc.

1,559 individuals · submitted November 18, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Human Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,559 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and drivers’ license and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary identity theft protection services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. The staff were also retrained on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Human Services, Inc.
State
PA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,559
Submission date
November 18, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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