Health Data Breach Tracker/MD

Business Associate · Archived

US Fertility LLC

878,550 individuals · submitted November 25, 2020

About this report

The business associate (BA), US Fertility, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 878,550 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection 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
US Fertility LLC
State
MD
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
878,550
Submission date
November 25, 2020
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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