Health Data Breach Tracker/WA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Overlake Medical Center & Clinics

109,234 individuals · submitted February 7, 2020

About this report

Overlake Medical Center and Clinics, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information of 109,234 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, health insurance information, clinical information, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. After the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Overlake Medical Center & Clinics
State
WA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
109,234
Submission date
February 7, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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