Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Urology Austin, PLLC

279,663 individuals · submitted March 22, 2017

About this report

An unauthorized user obtained remote access to the servers of the covered entity (CE), Seguin Dermatology. The protected health information (PHI) potentially affected included the names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and medical information of approximately 279,663 individuals. As a result of the breach, the CE improved safeguards, updated its policies and procedures, and trained its workforce members on better practices to protect PHI. Further, the CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Urology Austin, PLLC
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
279,663
Submission date
March 22, 2017
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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