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 May 8, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Santa Rosa & Rohnert Park Oral Surgery, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 8, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12884, row:4023)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Santa Rosa & Rohnert Park Oral Surgery, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information of 5,357 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In response to the breach, the CE retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications and implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.