Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Memorial Hospital Clinic West

521 individuals · submitted April 26, 2017

About this report

Seminole Hospital District of Gaines County Texas, the covered entity (CE), was a victim of a ransomware attack on a shared computer server for Memorial Hospital Clinic West (MHCW) and Memorial Hospital Clinic South (MHCS), part of the CE. As a result of the attack, the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 521 patients from MHCW and 842 patients from MHCS was held for ransom. The types of PHI involved in the breach included demographic and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the CE retrained staff and deployed additional software to block ransomware attacks. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Memorial Hospital Clinic West
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
521
Submission date
April 26, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Electronic Medical Record, Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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