Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Town of Babylon

1,974 individuals · submitted July 24, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Town of Babylon, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,974 affected individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Town of Babylon
State
NY
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,974
Submission date
July 24, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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