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 30, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Lisa Burkett DDS MS, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 30, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12893, row:4032)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Lisa Burkett, DDS, MS, reported that an employee sent a mass email to numerous individuals without masking the email addresses. The electronic protected health information (ePHI) involved included the names and email addresses for approximately 818 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE retrained its staff on the proper methods of securing ePHI via email. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective action noted.