Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Spectrum Health Lakeland

1,100 individuals · submitted May 6, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Spectrum Health Lakeland, reported that an employee of its vendor was the subject of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,100 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and claims 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 and technical safeguards to better protect PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security precautions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Spectrum Health Lakeland
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,100
Submission date
May 6, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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