Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Legacy Community Health Services

228,009 individuals · submitted September 25, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Legacy Community Health Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 228,009 patients. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Legacy Community Health Services
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
228,009
Submission date
September 25, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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