Health Data Breach Tracker/MS

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine, PC

8,908 individuals · submitted June 23, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine, PC, reported that it experienced a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,908 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, and clinical and health insurance information. The CE failed to provide timely breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, or the media. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its technical safeguards, revised its policies and procedures and retrained its entire workforce. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance pertaining to the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine, PC
State
MS
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
8,908
Submission date
June 23, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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