Health Data Breach Tracker/NM

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Presbyterian Healthcare Services

1,120,629 individuals · submitted August 2, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Presbyterian Healthcare Services, reported that numerous employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,120,629 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and clinical and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its employees on how to recognize and respond to fraudulent email communications and implemented additional security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
State
NM
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,120,629
Submission date
August 2, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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