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 Dec. 11, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- Highlands Cashier Hospital, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Dec. 11, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14919, row:6058)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A business associate (BA), Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., adjusted the covered entity's (CE) firewall in a manner that potentially exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 26,115 individuals on the internet. The types of PHI included patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, treatment information, and social security numbers (for 21,072 individuals). The CE sent timely breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also posted notification about the breach on its website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional firewall safeguard procedures, began monitoring traffic to and from its website, and began conducting external vulnerability scans. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.