Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Personal Touch Home Care of Mass., Inc.

2,015 individuals · submitted January 28, 2020

About this report

Personal Touch Home Care of Mass., Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 2,015 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional internal controls as well as technical and security safeguards in its oversight responsibilities of its BAs. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Personal Touch Home Care of Mass., Inc.
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,015
Submission date
January 28, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server, Other
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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