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 Oct. 10, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- Visionworks of America, Inc., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Oct. 10, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9665, row:804)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Visionworks of America reported that an employee was the target of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 39,825 individuals. The PHI involved included demographic information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, and retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.