Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Telecare Corporation

823 individuals · submitted September 30, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Telecare Corporation, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 823 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, financial information, clinical information, and other treatment information. After the breach, the CE sanctioned the workforce member responsible for the incident and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. The CE also implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Telecare Corporation
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
823
Submission date
September 30, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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