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 June 29, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Paul C. Gering, Jr., M.D., OR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- June 29, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14146, row:5285)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Burglars broke into the office of Paul C. Gering, Jr., M.D., the covered entity (CE), and stole a desktop computer server on June 2, 2017. The breach affected approximately 2,000 individuals, and involved protected health information (PHI), including patients’ addresses, dates of birth, driver’s licenses, names, social security numbers, clinical diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Upon discovering the breach, the CE notified law enforcement and improved physical safeguards. The CE provided timely notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the investigation, the CE improved physical safeguards by moving the server into the basement and installing security cameras. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.