Foundation Medicine

The covered entity (CE), Foundation Medicine, Inc., reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 2,999 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and clinical and treatment information. 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.