HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of June 25, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Bruce G. Peller, DMD, PA, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- June 25, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15606, row:6745)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Dr. Bruce Peller DMD, PA, discovered on April 27, 2012, that an unauthorized individual gained access to patients' protected health information (PHI) and compiled a list of such information. The CE determined that 9,953 individuals may have been affected and the following information may have been accessed: patients' names, legal guardians (if applicable), dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, treatment dates, internal identification numbers and account balances. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE obtained an injunction that required the destruction or return of PHI, implemented a stronger training program for its workforce, and improved its privacy and security policies. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.