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 17, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Stokes Regional Eye Centers, SC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 17, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11370, row:2509)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Stokes Regional Eye Centers, the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a cyber-attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 266,170 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services to those affected.