Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

MJHS Home Care

8,413 individuals · submitted August 11, 2017

About this report

The covered entity (CE), MJHS Home Care, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,413 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the discovery of the incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
MJHS Home Care
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
8,413
Submission date
August 11, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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