Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

The University of Texas at Arlington

27,000 individuals · submitted July 23, 2010

About this report

A file server at the Office of Health Services was compromised and impermissibly accessed. The compromise potentially exposed the prescription records of 27,000 individuals to an unauthorized source. The protected health information involved in the breach included names, addresses diagnostic codes, name of medication prescribed, medication costs and some social security numbers. Following the discovery of the breach, UTA removed the server from the network, notified the affected individuals and notified local media. Following the breach, the covered entity also replaced the operating system and implemented additional technical safeguards. \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
The University of Texas at Arlington
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
27,000
Submission date
July 23, 2010
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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