Health Data Breach Tracker/WI

Business Associate · Archived

Metropolitan Urology Group

17,634 individuals · submitted March 10, 2017

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Metropolitan Urology Group, reported that it was the victim of a cyberattack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 17,634 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to those affected and strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. The staff were retrained on security awareness.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Metropolitan Urology Group
State
WI
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
17,634
Submission date
March 10, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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