Business Associate · Archived
UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
209,048 individuals · submitted October 15, 2021
About this report
UMass Memorial Health Care, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 209,048 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. UMass notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, UMass implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. In addition, UMass retrained its workforce members on email security precautions.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
- State
- MA
- Entity type
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 209,048
- Submission date
- October 15, 2021
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- Yes
- OCR status
- Archived
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