Health Data Breach Tracker/NC

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center

18,479 individuals · submitted October 31, 2022

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center, reported that several employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 18,479 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. The CE also retrained its staff on email security.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center
State
NC
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
18,479
Submission date
October 31, 2022
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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