Health Data Breach Tracker/IA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Grx Holdings, LLC dba Medicap Pharmacy

2,300 individuals · submitted February 2, 2016

About this report

An external hard drive containing the clinical and demographic information of approximately 2,300 individuals inadvertently fell into a garage can around November 5, 2015. The covered entity (CE), Grx Holdings, LLC dba Medicap Pharmacy, provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE adhered the external hard drives to the wall and initiated a change to eliminate the use of external hard drives as a data backup. It also sanctioned and retrained the involved employees. OCR obtained documentation that the CE implemented these corrective action steps.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Grx Holdings, LLC dba Medicap Pharmacy
State
IA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,300
Submission date
February 2, 2016
Breach type
Loss
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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