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 Sept. 13, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Kilgore Vision Center, AR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Sept. 13, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13223, row:4362)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Kilgore Vision Center, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 46,353 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, drivers’ license numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, health insurance information, and claims and financial information. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. In addition, all workforce members were retrained in an effort to better protect its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.