Confidio

Confidio, LLC, a business associate (BA), reported that several of its employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 14,016 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, clinical information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented new administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its workforce members on how to better protect ePHI.