Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Warren General Hospital

168,921 individuals · submitted November 9, 2023

About this report

Warren General Hospital, the covered entity (CE), reported that it experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 168,921 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, medications, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE enhanced its use of existing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all external user access to improve security. Implemented additional technical safeguards.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Warren General Hospital
State
PA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
168,921
Submission date
November 9, 2023
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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