HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Jan. 13, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- 1st Franklin Financial Corporation Master Welfare Benefit Plan, GA
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Jan. 13, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10955, row:2094)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
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.