Healthcare Provider · Archived
Methodist Homes of Alabama and Northwest Florida
8,711 individuals · submitted January 30, 2025
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Methodist Homes of Alabama and Northwest Florida, discovered that an unauthorized user had access to its systems between October 2-14, 2024, via a ransomware attack. The breach affected the protected health information (PHI) of 8,711 individuals. The PHI involved names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals, the media, the HHS Secretary, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented a variety of additional security measures, additional training requirements, and a revised password management policy.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Methodist Homes of Alabama and Northwest Florida
- State
- AL
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 8,711
- Submission date
- January 30, 2025
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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