Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Rochester Regional Health

1,945 individuals · submitted June 1, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Rochester Regional Health, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,945 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, medications prescribed, lab results, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. 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 the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Rochester Regional Health
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,945
Submission date
June 1, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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