HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of June 28, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Mattax Neu Prater Eye Center, Inc., MO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- June 28, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11354, row:2493)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Mattax Neu Prater Eye Center, reported that its business associate (BA) was the subject of a hacking incident that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 92,361 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals and terminated its business relationship with the BA.