Health Data Breach Tracker/CT

Business Associate · Archived

Saint Francis Healthcare Partners

38,529 individuals · submitted May 4, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Saint Francis Healthcare Partners, reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 38,529 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, diagnoses, health insurance information, and treatment and clinical information. Following the breach, 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
Saint Francis Healthcare Partners
State
CT
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
38,529
Submission date
May 4, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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