Health Data Breach Tracker/MA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Newton Centre Dental

2,547 individuals · submitted March 12, 2024

About this report

Newton Centre Dental, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 2,547 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license and Social Security numbers, diagnoses, claims and health insurance information, and other treatment information. In its mitigation efforts, the CE and BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security precautions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Newton Centre Dental
State
MA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,547
Submission date
March 12, 2024
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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