The covered entity (CE), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, reported that an employee sent a newsletter via email to 882 recipients and failed to use the blind copy function, thereby, exposing the email addresses of all recipients. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the responsible employee was sanctioned and retrained to prevent future incidents of this nature. In addition, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
