Healthcare Provider · Archived
Ramsey County
117,905 individuals · submitted December 11, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Ramsey County, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 117,905 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and other identifiers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. Staff were retrained on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Ramsey County
- State
- MN
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 117,905
- Submission date
- December 11, 2018
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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