Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Paragon Health, P.C.

685 individuals · submitted November 18, 2020

About this report

Paragon Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 685 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, clinical information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the aforementioned corrective actions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Paragon Health, P.C.
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
685
Submission date
November 18, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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