Health Data Breach Tracker/VA

Business Associate · Archived

Practice Transformation Solutions, LLC

1,678 individuals · submitted October 13, 2020

About this report

A business associate (BA), Practice Transformation Solutions, LLC, was informed by its covered entity (CE) that one of the its employees was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 1,678 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, patient account numbers, and health insurance and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Practice Transformation Solutions, LLC
State
VA
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
1,678
Submission date
October 13, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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