Health Data Breach Tracker/VT

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Rutland Hospital, Inc. d/b/a/ Rutland Regional Medical Center

72,224 individuals · submitted February 20, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Rutland Regional Medical Center, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 72,224 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, financial and health insurance information, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its staff.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Rutland Hospital, Inc. d/b/a/ Rutland Regional Medical Center
State
VT
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
72,224
Submission date
February 20, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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