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 10, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Internal Medicine Associates of Jasper, PC, dba Prestige Medical Group, GA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 10, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12159, row:3298)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Internal Medicine Associates of Jasper dba Prestige Medical Group, reported that it experienced a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 34,203 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, mailing addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI, and retrained its employees.