Hack Notice

Hack Notice: CVS CAREMARK

CVS CAREMARK

Description
An employee of the covered entity (CE), CVS Caremark, with access to patients protected health information (PHI) impermissibly accessed and printed patient drug transference reports as portion of a scheme to fill fraudulent prescriptions. The prescription drug reports were then disclosed to a third party, the employees boyfriend, who was a former employee of another CVS store. law enforcement notified the CE about the jade on march 16, 2011 following a raid of the perpetrators home, in which law enforcement confiscated paper documents belonging to the CE. The PHI involved in the hack included the names, addresses, birthdates, prescription numbers, telephone numbers, and prescription names of approximately 654 individuals. The CE provided hack notification to HHS and affected individuals and also offered unloose credit monitoring. in reaction to this incident, the ce immediately terminated the employee and retrained pharmacy staff on its HIPAA policies. The ce also provided evidence that both individuals have since had their pharmacy licenses suspended by the commonwealth licensing board. as a result of OCRs investigation, OCR obtained assurances that the corrective actions listed above were completed. Location of hacked information: Paper/Films Business associate present: no

About HackNotice and CVS CAREMARK

HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and CVS CAREMARK was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

If you are a user of CVS CAREMARK their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for CVS CAREMARK you may have been alerted to this report about CVS CAREMARK . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.

If CVS CAREMARK had a breach of consumer data or a data leak, then there may be additional actions that our clients should take to protect their digital identity. data breaches, hacks, and leaks often leading to and cause identity theft, account have overs, ransomware, spyware, extortion, and malware. account takeovers are often caused by credential reuse, password reuse, easily guessed passwords, and are facilitated by the sharing of billions of credentials and other customer information through data leaks, as the direct outcome of data breaches and hacks.

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