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 March 2, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Jeremaih J. Twomey, F.A.C.P., P.A., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- March 2, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15682, row:6821)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Jeremaih J. Twomey, F.A.C.P., P.A. filed a breach notification report on March 2, 2012, as a business associate (BA), stating its office building and suite were ransacked and vandalized during the weekend of December 31, 2011. An external hard drive was stolen containing patient names, addresses, medical condition(s), diagnoses and, in some instances, social security numbers and dates of birth. The number of patients affected was 2,559. The BA provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR initiated an investigation and, subsequently, learned that Jeremaih J. Twomey, F.A.C.P., P.A. is no longer a business associate (or covered entity). Dr. Twomey retired and closed his practice.