Health Data Breach Tracker/AL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Proteus Molecular and Clinical Lab, LLC

728 individuals · submitted March 29, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Proteus Molecular and Clinical Lab, reported that an employee emailed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 728 individuals to his personal email account. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, diagnoses, health insurance and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional security safeguards and retrained its staff to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Proteus Molecular and Clinical Lab, LLC
State
AL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
728
Submission date
March 29, 2021
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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