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 June 24, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Heartland Dental, LLC, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 24, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14769, row:5908)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Heartland Dental, LLC, a business associate (BA), experienced a cyberattack that resulted in unauthorized access to several of its websites from March 31, 2013, through March 23, 2015. The hackers were then able to access databases containing the protected health information (PHI) of 2,860 individuals due to a website coding error. The compromised PHI included clinical, demographic, and financial information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals (on June 2, 2015), and the media. Following the breach, the CE modified the coding error, moved all databases containing PHI to its internal secure network, implemented a new software patch management policy (in October 2016), and activated a new firewall and new logging and monitoring systems. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective action steps listed above.