So this is something that I don’t recall ever seeing before as part of an initial breach disclosure. CBS5 reports:
A Phoenix dental office has an ongoing breach of protected health information, Arizona’s Family learned Monday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights ordered Desert Valley Dental to inform the public of this breach.
The breach has been ongoing since it started around September of 2018.
Over 7,500 patients’ information has been compromised by this breach.
Read more on AZFamily.
What kind of breach is this and why and how is it still ongoing?
DataBreaches.net reached out to the practice yesterday to ask it a number of questions– about the alleged breach and whether OCR actually ordered them to notify patients at this time.
This post will be updated if and when a response is received.