Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center

The covered entity (CE), Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, reported that several of its employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme. This breach affected 2,266 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, lab results, diagnoses, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of this breach, the CE offered credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services. Sacred Heart also set up a call center to answer questions and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI. All staff were retrained on ways to identify phishing emails and mitigate their dissemination. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.