Health Data Breach Tracker/FL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Physicians' Primary Care of Southwest Florida

170,653 individuals · submitted November 14, 2024

About this report

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security alerted Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida, the covered entity (CE) to suspicious traffic by a cyber threat actor group. The CE investigated and determined that the threat actor group had hacked its computer network, and the breach affected the protected health information of 170,653 individuals. The PHI involved demographic and treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to affected individuals, the media, HHS, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented a series of improved technical safeguards to further protect PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Physicians' Primary Care of Southwest Florida
State
FL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
170,653
Submission date
November 14, 2024
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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