Florida Digestive Health Specialists Suffers Data Security Incident Involving Protected Health Information
In a December 27, 2021 “Notice of Data Breach,” Florida Digestive Health Specialists, LLP (“FDHS”) notified consumers that “[o]n December 16, 2020, an employee noted suspicious activity within their FDHS email account that resulted in suspicious emails having been sent from their employee account. Several days later, on December 21, 2020, FDHS learned that funds had been misrouted to an unknown bank account.”
The “Notice of Data Breach” stated that its investigation of the data breach “. . . found that a limited number of FDHS employee email accounts had been accessed by unauthorized users. [The] investigation was involved and, though access was confined to a limited number of FDHS email accounts, those accounts were voluminous. FDHS investigated those email accounts to determine what information was found in those accounts, whether it constituted personal information, protected health information, or other confidential information, and to whom that information belonged. This process took a considerable amount of time and only concluded on November 19, 2021.”
According to the data breach notice, “[t]he categories of PHI present in the posted data set include . . . first and last name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, financial information, health insurance information, medical information, diagnosis, health insurance individual policy number, and Medicare/Medicaid information.” [Emphasis added.]
The total number of persons affected, according to the Office Of The Maine Attorney General, is 212,509.
To view the data breach notice, please click “FDHS Notice of Data Breach.”
Source: Office Of The Maine Attorney General
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