Health Plan · Archived
Minnesota Department of Human Services
20,800 individuals · submitted October 9, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Minnesota Department of Human Services, reported that several employees were victims of a series of email phishing schemes. This breach affected 20,320 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and diagnoses/conditions. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following this breach, the CE implemented additional security, technical and administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI. The CE also retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Minnesota Department of Human Services
- State
- MN
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 20,800
- Submission date
- October 9, 2018
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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