HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Nov. 26, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Brazos Valley Plastic Surgery, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Nov. 26, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12480, row:3619)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Brazos Valley Plastic Surgery, reported that an employee inadvertently emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 2,255 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its workforce on email security.