{"id":3461,"date":"2020-06-15T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3461"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:32:08","slug":"hipaa-breach-discovered-at-the-philadelphia-dbhids","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/news\/hipaa-breach-discovered-at-the-philadelphia-dbhids\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPAA breach discovered at the Philadelphia DBHIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 15, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"E285\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/news\/hipaa-breach-discovered-at-the-philadelphia-department-of-behavioral-health-and-intellectual-disability-services-2\/\">Posted 6\/1\/20<\/a>, Updated&nbsp;6\/15\/20<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Website-Notice-update-061520-clean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click to read entire official notice (PDF download)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"E290\">The Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual&nbsp;disAbility&nbsp;Services&nbsp;(\u201cDBHIDS\u201d) is posting this notice to alert individuals that their personal health information may have been compromised as a result of a&nbsp;cybersecurity&nbsp;attack. This incident&nbsp;may impact individuals served by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the Division of Intellectual&nbsp;disAbility&nbsp;Services (\u201cIDS\u201d)&nbsp;which&nbsp;coordinates and administers&nbsp;home and community habilitation, adaptive equipment, behavior and&nbsp;other therapies,&nbsp;early intervention,&nbsp;and residential, respite, employment, and day services for individuals with intellectual disabilities in&nbsp;Philadelphia; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community Behavioral Health (\u201cCBH\u201d),&nbsp;a business associate of DBHIDS which&nbsp;assists DBHIDS&nbsp;in administering the behavioral health Medicaid program&nbsp;(HealthChoices)&nbsp;for the Philadelphia region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"E332\">On March 31, 2020, DBHIDS learned that&nbsp;an&nbsp;IDS&nbsp;employee\u2019s email account had been compromised as a result of a phishing attack. The Office of Innovation and Technology\u2019s Information Security Group (\u201cOIT\u201d)&nbsp;immediately secured the account and began an investigation.&nbsp;OIT learned&nbsp;that&nbsp;several additional&nbsp;accounts were&nbsp;compromised: an IDS account discovered April 2,&nbsp;a&nbsp;CBH&nbsp;account discovered on April 15,&nbsp;and a&nbsp;DBHIDS&nbsp;account discovered on April 20.&nbsp;Each account was secured immediately upon discovery.&nbsp;OIT\u2019s investigation is ongoing and additional DBHIDS and CBH accounts are being reviewed to determine whether they were also compromised.&nbsp;These&nbsp;attacks&nbsp;are believed to be connected to a series of malicious attacks targeting health care and social services agencies during the COVID-19 global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"E369\">To date, the&nbsp;investigation has been unable to&nbsp;confirm&nbsp;whether&nbsp;unauthorized&nbsp;persons&nbsp;have viewed any emails or attachments in the compromised accounts.&nbsp;The&nbsp;accounts contained demographic and health-related&nbsp;information&nbsp;of individuals receiving services and supports through&nbsp;DBHIDS&nbsp;and CBH, including:&nbsp;names, dates of birth,&nbsp;addresses,&nbsp;account and\/or medical record numbers,&nbsp;Social&nbsp;Security numbers, health insurance information, clinical information such as diagnosis, dates of service, provider names, and description of services the&nbsp;individual&nbsp;has applied for or was receiving. For a limited number of&nbsp;individuals&nbsp;served by IDS, the accounts also contained scans of birth certificates, driver\u2019s licenses,&nbsp;and Social Security cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Website-Notice-update-061520-clean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click to read entire official notice (PDF download)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"E522\">If you receive services or support through DBHIDS and have\u00a0questions or concerns, you\u00a0can call <a href=\"tel:1-888-858-1748\">1-888-858-1748<\/a> for more information.\u00a0CBH members\u00a0can call <a href=\"tel:1-888-545-2600\">1-888-545-2600<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 15, 2020 Posted 6\/1\/20, Updated&nbsp;6\/15\/20 Click to read entire official notice (PDF download) The Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual&nbsp;disAbility&nbsp;Services&nbsp;(\u201cDBHIDS\u201d) is posting this notice to alert individuals that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[66,102,24,42,142,144,143],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3461","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-cbh","tag-city-of-philadelphia","tag-covid-19","tag-dbhids","tag-hipaa","tag-phishing","tag-security-breach"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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