Wise Health System

The covered entity (CE), Wise Health System, reported that employee(s) were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 127,088 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to its email environment. The CE also retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.