Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Kent County Community Mental Health Authority

2,284 individuals · submitted December 21, 2018

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Kent County Community Mental Health Authority, reported that multiple staff members were the victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 2,284 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Kent County Community Mental Health Authority
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,284
Submission date
December 21, 2018
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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