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 Nov. 1, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Utah Valley Eye Center, UT
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- Nov. 1, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13148, row:4287)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Utah Valley Eye Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that it was the victim of a cyber-attack involving the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 20,418 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, email addresses, addresses, and phone numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Rules.