Healthcare Provider · Archived
Walnut Place
5,000 individuals · submitted May 12, 2017
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Walnut Place, experienced a ransomware attack on one of its computer servers containing electronic protected health information (ePHI). The types of ePHI on the server included the demographic, clinical, and health insurance information of approximately 6,500 individuals. Upon discovering the breach, the CE contained and stopped the attack by removing infected files from the server. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE improved administrative and technically safeguards and retrained staff on observing and reporting malicious software. OCR obtained assurance that the CE implemented corrective actions to enhance its security controls.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Walnut Place
- State
- TX
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 5,000
- Submission date
- May 12, 2017
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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