Health Data Breach Tracker/MS

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Scott Regional Hospital

1,056 individuals · submitted May 20, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Scott Regional Hospital, reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a ransomware attack affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,056 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and medications prescribed and prescribing information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected individuals. In response to the breach, the BA retained a third-party forensic investigator that identified the vulnerability which allowed the breach to occur; the BA remediated this issue in its mitigation efforts to better secure its sensitive data. The BA also implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Scott Regional Hospital
State
MS
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,056
Submission date
May 20, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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