Health Data Breach Tracker/AR

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Ozark Orthopaedics, PA

15,240 individuals · submitted February 28, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Ozark Orthopaedics, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 15,240 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and financial and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Ozark Orthopaedics, PA
State
AR
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
15,240
Submission date
February 28, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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