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 Oct. 4, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Gary Smith and assoc inc DBA gary smith agency, MS
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Oct. 4, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13196, row:4335)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA) of several covered entities, Gary Smith and Associates (GSA), Inc., reported that two former employees impermissibly obtained protected health information (PHI). This breach affected 1,218 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, Medicare claim numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, and other demographic information. As a result of this breach, the BA made several changes to limit employees’ access to customer information, including eliminating remote access to its computer system and restricting door key codes to management employees only in an effort to improve physical security. The BA also implemented additional technical and security safeguards. The BA notified affected individuals, OCR, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted above.