Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Kaiser Permanente

990 individuals · submitted September 26, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information of 990 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, gender, diagnoses, health insurance information, clinical information, 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 ePHI. OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Kaiser Permanente
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
990
Submission date
September 26, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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