Health Data Breach Tracker/MA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Minuteman Senior Services

3,381 individuals · submitted January 27, 2023

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Minuteman Senior Services, Inc., reported that an employee was subject to an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 3,381 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security precautions and on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Minuteman Senior Services
State
MA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,381
Submission date
January 27, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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