Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Pacific Alliance Medical Center

266,123 individuals · submitted August 10, 2017

About this report

The covered entity (CE) was the victim of a malware/ransom attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 266,123 patients. The PHI involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, addresses, social security numbers, driver’s license information, claims information, and treatment information such as diagnoses, medications, lab results, and medical images. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards. OCR’s investigation resulted in the CE enhancing its practices in safeguarding PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Pacific Alliance Medical Center
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
266,123
Submission date
August 10, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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