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 Dec. 15, 2010.
- Organization as reported
- Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc., PA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Dec. 15, 2010
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15929, row:7068)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Pinnacle Health Systems was notified that a business associate, a medical transcription service, had a server compromised in which reports of Pinnacle patients could be viewed online. The server compromise involved the protected health information of 1085 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included names, Medicaid ID numbers, dates of birth, and primary physicians. In response to this incident, the covered entity took steps to enforce the requirements of the Privacy & Security Rules. The covered entity immediately discontinued its relationship with the business associate and engaged another medical transcription service. The covered entity also contracted with forensic consultants to ensure that the cause of the compromise was found that that all traces of breached medical reports were removed from online and inaccessible in the future. \