Seven Counties Services, Inc.

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The covered entity (CE), Seven Counties Services, Inc., reported that numerous employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 13,375 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, mail and email addresses, telephone numbers, clinical information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained the responsible employees on the importance of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications and strengthened its technical safeguards. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.