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1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan
ArchivedSubmitted 01/13/2023
Updated 12 hours ago ()
- State
- GA
- Covered entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 3,039
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan, the covered entity (CE), reported that employees experienced an email phishing incident that resulted in the deployment of ransomware that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 3,039 individuals. The PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its technical safeguards and retrained its workforce on identifying potential phishing schemes.
Change history
- Sep 23, 2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
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