Healthcare Provider · Archived
UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services
13,911 individuals · submitted April 10, 2020
About this report
UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 13,911 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, other demographic information, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, 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 fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services
- State
- PA
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 13,911
- Submission date
- April 10, 2020
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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