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Healthcare Provider · Archived

The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enltighten, and Serve Addicts, Inc.

33,933 individuals · submitted February 23, 2022

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 scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 33,933 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the workforce member and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enltighten, and Serve Addicts, Inc.
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
33,933
Submission date
February 23, 2022
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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