Business Associate · Archived
The Richards Group
15,429 individuals · submitted January 28, 2021
About this report
The covered entity (CE), The Richards Group, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 15,429 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and health insurance and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. Staff were retrained on email security.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- The Richards Group
- State
- VT
- Entity type
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 15,429
- Submission date
- January 28, 2021
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- Yes
- OCR status
- Archived
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