On Nov. 29, Catholic Charities of Baltimore became aware of a security incident that may have impacted some of its clients' information.
Catholic Charities, a nonprofit organization, provides human services to children, families, immigrants, seniors, those living in poverty and those with intellectual disabilities.
The organization was informed that on Oct. 17, 2016, an unauthorized person accessed a Catholic Charities employee's email inbox. The emails may have included clients' names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, insurance providers, a unique ID that Catholic Charities assigns to individuals, the name or type of certain providers, diagnostic and treatment information and a limited number of Social Security numbers.
To address the security incident, Catholic Charities secured the employee's email inbox and reset the employee's password. The nonprofit is offering one year of identity protection services to those whose Social Security numbers may have been affected.
Catholic Charities has "no evidence that the unknown person(s) actually read the emails" and is "not aware of any fraud or misuse of any information as a result of this incident."