Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Brazos Valley Plastic Surgery

2,255 individuals · submitted November 26, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Brazos Valley Plastic Surgery, reported that an employee inadvertently emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 2,255 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Brazos Valley Plastic Surgery
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,255
Submission date
November 26, 2020
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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