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 May 11, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- HeartCare Consultants, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- May 11, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14534, row:5673)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On March 30, 2016, Heartcare Consultants, LLC, the covered entity (CE), discovered that its business associate (BA), Bizmatics, had experienced a cyber-attack potentially exposing the social security numbers, demographic, clinical, and health insurance information of 16,143 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media and provided credit monitoring and identity theft protection to the affected individuals. At the time of the breach, the CE failed to have in place a BA agreement with the BA. Following the breach, the CE entered into a BA agreement, revised its HIPAA policies and procedures, and retrained its entire workforce. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.