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 18, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Woodlawn Dental Center, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- May 18, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12876, row:4015)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Woodlawn Dental Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that it suffered a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) 14,419 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. Workforce staff were retrained.