Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Simpson Senior Services, Inc.

3,259 individuals · submitted December 31, 2020

About this report

Simpson Senior Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 3,529 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, lab results, medications, diagnoses, and additional treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. All staff were retrained.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Simpson Senior Services, Inc.
State
PA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,259
Submission date
December 31, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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