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 Aug. 27, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- First coast podiatric surgery and wound, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Aug. 27, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13712, row:4851)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On August 16, 2018, First Coast Podiatric Surgery and Wound, the covered entity (“CE”), discovered that its billing software, managed by its business associate (“BA”), NextGen, had experienced an IT incident causing the log-in page for one clinic to show as the log-in page for other clinics. The CE initially reported that approximately 500 individuals were affected, but after further investigation, the CE concluded that no protected health information (PHI) was involved in the IT incident. Though an IT incident occurred, the log-in page still required authorized username and password information in order to access any PHI; and PHI was not at any time accessed by unauthorized individuals. Because the CE determined there was no reportable breach of PHI, and no affected individuals, it did not provide individual notification. OCR obtained assurances that no reportable breach occurred.