Health Data Breach Tracker/ME

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Spectrum Healthcare Partners

11,308 individuals · submitted January 10, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Spectrum Healthcare Partners, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 11,308 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, financial and health insurance information, dates of birth, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Spectrum Healthcare Partners
State
ME
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
11,308
Submission date
January 10, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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