Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

RiverKids Pediatric Home Health

10,000 individuals · submitted December 2, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), RiverKids Pediatric Home Health, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information of approximately 6,143 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
RiverKids Pediatric Home Health
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
10,000
Submission date
December 2, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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