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 Oct. 31, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Oct. 31, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11077, row:2216)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center, reported that several employees were the subjects of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 18,479 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. The CE also retrained its staff on email security.