Health Data Breach Tracker/NC

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Uncommon Care, P.A.

13,674 individuals · submitted June 21, 2016

About this report

Uncommon Care, P.A., the covered entity (CE), discovered that its business associate (BA), Bizmatics, Inc., was the victim of a computer hacking incident. The incident resulted in potential unauthorized access to the CE’s electronic medical records stored on Bizmatics’ servers. The breach affected 13,674 individuals and included patients' addresses, dates of birth, names, social security numbers, diagnoses, test results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE sent timely breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, and to the media. The CE also posted notification about the breach on its website. In response to the breach, the CE offered one year of free credit monitoring to the affected individuals. Prior to OCR's investigation, the CE determined that its BA agreement with the BA was not fully executed and entered into an effective BA agreement on June 7, 2016. The CE decided to continue its services contract with the BA and obtained assurances from the BA that improvements have been and will be made to its computer network, servers, and network monitoring activities. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Uncommon Care, P.A.
State
NC
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
13,674
Submission date
June 21, 2016
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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