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 Feb. 1, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center, NV
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Feb. 1, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12370, row:3509)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 50,000 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE revised its security policies and procedures, implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI, and retrained its workforce members. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.