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 March 27, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Tryon Medical Partners, PLLC, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 27, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12941, row:4080)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Tryon Medical Partners, PLLC, reported that an employee sent the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 701 individuals to her personal email account. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and local law enforcement. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented new administrative, technical, and security safeguards. All staff were retrained on the HIPAA Rules. In addition, the CE offered complimentary identity theft monitoring services to affected individuals. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.