Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Ronald D. Garrett-Roe, MD

1,600 individuals · submitted January 23, 2015

About this report

Alleged hackers gained unauthorized access to one or two hard drives on the desktop computers of the covered entity (CE), Dr. Ronald D. Garrett-Roe, affecting approximately 1,600 patients’ protected health information. The CE reported that the hard drive had been removed, all of the files copied, and the hard drive formatted, which caused all of the computer programs, the operating system, and many patient records to be erased. Dr. Garrett-Roe is no longer a covered entity.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Ronald D. Garrett-Roe, MD
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,600
Submission date
January 23, 2015
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Desktop Computer
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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