Health Data Breach Tracker/NV

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center

50,000 individuals · submitted February 1, 2021

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 50,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE revised its security policies and procedures, implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI, and retrained its workforce members. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center
State
NV
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
50,000
Submission date
February 1, 2021
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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