Health Data Breach Tracker/MD

Healthcare Provider · Archived

MedStar Health, Inc.

183,079 individuals · submitted May 3, 2024

About this report

Medstar Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 183,079 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, clinical and financial information, and other identifiers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided additional security awareness training to all staff members and implemented additional technical safeguards.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
MedStar Health, Inc.
State
MD
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
183,079
Submission date
May 3, 2024
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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