Health Data Breach Tracker/TN

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance

81,146 individuals · submitted February 14, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 81,146 patients. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, diagnoses, and other 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 PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance
State
TN
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
81,146
Submission date
February 14, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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