Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enlighten, and Serve Addicts, Inc. (PROMESA)

3,129 individuals · submitted July 16, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enlighten and Serve Addicts, Inc., reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,129 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, financial information, passport numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthen its administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enlighten, and Serve Addicts, Inc. (PROMESA)
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,129
Submission date
July 16, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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