Health Data Breach Tracker/MD

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Penn-Mar Human Services

536 individuals · submitted November 25, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Penn-Mar Human Services, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 536 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. The CE also retrained its workforce members on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Penn-Mar Human Services
State
MD
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
536
Submission date
November 25, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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