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 Jan. 23, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Ronald D. Garrett-Roe, MD, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- Jan. 23, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14896, row:6035)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Alleged hackers gained unauthorized access to one or two hard drives on the desktop computers of the covered entity (CE), Dr. Ronald D. Garrett-Roe, affecting approximately 1,600 patients’ protected health information. The CE reported that the hard drive had been removed, all of the files copied, and the hard drive formatted, which caused all of the computer programs, the operating system, and many patient records to be erased. Dr. Garrett-Roe is no longer a covered entity.