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 April 21, 2011.
- Organization as reported
- Keith & Fisher, DDS, PA, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- April 21, 2011
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15863, row:7002)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Keith & Fisher DDS PA, discovered on March 7, 2011, that its server had been hacked, potentially exposing the clinical and demographic data for 6,000 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, and published notice on its website and to the media. In response to the breach, the CE increased its information systems security, improved its password policy, implemented logging procedures to track access failures and changed access to its servers so it is only accessible through an existing firewall and a virtual private network tunnel. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.