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 Nov. 5, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Hermitage Eye Care, PLLC dba Dover Eye Care, TN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Nov. 5, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11806, row:2945)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Hermitage Eye Care, reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a security incident in which the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 11,672 individuals was accessible via a patient portal on the Internet. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and conditions. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to this incident and OCR’s investigation, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI.