Health Plan · Archived
WEA Insurance Corporation
850 individuals · submitted December 27, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), WEA Insurance Company, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 850 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. 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
- WEA Insurance Corporation
- State
- WI
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 850
- Submission date
- December 27, 2018
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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