Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

OmniSeq, Inc.

3,977 individuals · submitted November 21, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), OmniSeq, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,977 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of births, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, and addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, law enforcement, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
OmniSeq, Inc.
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,977
Submission date
November 21, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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