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 26, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Rose Dental, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 26, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12809, row:3948)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Rose Dental, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 2,835 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and related health information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its employees on email security and implemented additional technical safeguards and decommissioned its legacy email-system.