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 6, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Spectrum Eye Physicians, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 6, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11405, row:2544)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Spectrum Eye Physicians, reported that its business associate (BA) suffered a cyber-attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 175,000 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses, financial information, medications, and health insurance and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE terminated is business relationship with its BA.