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 April 28, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Regional Eye Associates, Inc. & Surgical Eye Center of Morgantown, WV
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- April 28, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11495, row:2634)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Regional Eye Associates & Surgical Eye Center of Morgantown, reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 194,035 individuals. The PHI involved included names, diagnoses, and financial and clinical information. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI.