Health Data Breach Tracker/KS

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Valley Hope Association

70,799 individuals · submitted January 18, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Valley Hope Association, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 70,799 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. 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 email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Valley Hope Association
State
KS
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
70,799
Submission date
January 18, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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