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OCR settles phishing attack investigation, with provider paying $480,000
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said Thursday it has settled with Lafourche Medical Group closing an investigation over a phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information of approximately 34,862 individuals.
WHY IT MATTERS
A hacker gained access to an email account that contained ePHI owned by Lafourche Medical Group, a provider of emergency medicine, occupational medicine and laboratory testing in Louisiana, March 30, 2021.
OCR said its investigation revealed that before …
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