Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Wise Health System

35,899 individuals · submitted July 13, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Wise Health System, reported that employee(s) were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 127,088 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to its email environment. The CE also 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
Wise Health System
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
35,899
Submission date
July 13, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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