Metropolitan Jewish Health System

The covered entity (CE), Metropolitan Jewish Health System dba MJHS, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 50,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other treatment and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the discovery of the incident, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.