Healthcare Provider · Archived
Lynn Community Health, Incorporated
1,800 individuals · submitted January 22, 2021
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Lynn Community Health, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,800 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its staff on email security and strengthened its technical safeguards.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Lynn Community Health, Incorporated
- State
- MA
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 1,800
- Submission date
- January 22, 2021
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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