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 Sept. 29, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 29, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10438, row:1577)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Tenet Healthcare, on behalf of Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of the CE was the subject of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 37,774 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, claims information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. Tenet Healthcare notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data.