Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Business Associate · Archived

Selected Benefits

8,100 individuals · submitted August 14, 2020

About this report

The business associate (BA), Selected Benefits, reported that its email hosting service provider experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 8,100 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and clinical and financial information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the email hosting service provider implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Selected Benefits
State
PA
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
8,100
Submission date
August 14, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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