Health Data Breach Tracker/MA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Jeff Spiegel

832 individuals · submitted December 23, 2013

About this report

Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel’s practice, the covered entity (CE), mistakenly sent a promotional email to approximately 500 patients with an attachment that included the email addresses of 832 patients. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE instituted a new procedure that requires two employees to proof promotional emails prior to sending. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions listed above were completed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Jeff Spiegel
State
MA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
832
Submission date
December 23, 2013
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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