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. 18, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Little Rock Plastic Surgery, P.A., AR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Sept. 18, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13215, row:4354)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Little Rock Plastic Surgery, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee impermissibly downloaded patient contact information and sent it to her personal email account. This breach affected approximately 6,300 individuals. The electronic protected health information (ePHI) involved included names, medications prescribed, and other demographic information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that CE implemented the corrective actions noted.