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 Nov. 14, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- Physicians' Primary Care of Southwest Florida, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Nov. 14, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9605, row:744)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security alerted Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida, the covered entity (CE) to suspicious traffic by a cyber threat actor group. The CE investigated and determined that the threat actor group had hacked its computer network, and the breach affected the protected health information of 170,653 individuals. The PHI involved demographic and treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to affected individuals, the media, HHS, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented a series of improved technical safeguards to further protect PHI.