Town of Babylon

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported a data breach involving the Town of Babylon on July 24, 2020. The breach type was hacking/IT incident affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,974 individuals due to an email phishing scheme. The breach led to the implementation of additional safeguards and workforce retraining on email fraud prevention.

Source: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/town-of-babylon

"id": "tow507071125",
"linkid": "town-of-babylon",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "7/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1974,
                        'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'location': 'Babylon, NY, USA',
                        'name': 'Town of Babylon',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Phishing',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1974,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': 'ePHI'},
 'date_detected': '2020-07-24',
 'description': 'The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported a '
                'data breach involving the Town of Babylon on July 24, 2020. '
                'The breach type was hacking/IT incident affecting the '
                'electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,974 '
                'individuals due to an email phishing scheme. The breach led '
                'to the implementation of additional safeguards and workforce '
                'retraining on email fraud prevention.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': 'ePHI'},
 'references': [{'source': 'U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'}],
 'response': {'containment_measures': 'Implementation of additional safeguards',
              'remediation_measures': 'Workforce retraining on email fraud '
                                      'prevention'},
 'title': 'Data Breach at Town of Babylon',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}