Health Data Breach Tracker/KS

Business Associate · Archived

Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.

8,275 individuals · submitted November 14, 2011

About this report

The covered entity's (CE), Lawrence Memorial Hospital, business associate (BA), performed a security update to the CE's website that potentially allowed the impermissible disclosure of 8,275 individuals' electronic protected health information (ePHI). The ePHI consisted of names, addresses, other demographic information, and credit card/bank account numbers. Upon discovering the breach, CE shut down its website, removed all identified cached pages containing ePHI, started actions to terminate the relationship with the BA, and updated its breach notification policy. CE also provided breach notification to affected individuals, HHS, and the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. It offered credit monitoring service to affected individuals. As a result of OCR's investigation, CE finalized its new breach notification policy, updated its BA contracts, and re-trained staff on its privacy, security, and breach notification polices.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.
State
KS
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
8,275
Submission date
November 14, 2011
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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