Health Data Breach Tracker/OH

Business Associate · Archived

Superior Dental Care Alliance

38,260 individuals · submitted March 25, 2019

About this report

Superior Dental Care Alliance, a business associate (BA), reported that it was the victim of an email phishing scheme affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 41,551 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, addresses, claims information, and financial information. Interestingly, the CE and BA merged into a single entity. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Superior Dental Care Alliance
State
OH
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
38,260
Submission date
March 25, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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