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 29, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Takai, Hoover, and Hsu, P.A., MD
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- May 29, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13385, row:4524)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Takai, Hoover, and HSU, P.A., the covered entity (CE), reported that the Montgomery County Police Department informed them that one of its employees was a person of interest in an ongoing fraud investigation and that she may have used its protected health information (PHI) in fraudulent activities. This breach affected the PHI of 16,000 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data.