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Thomasville Eye Center

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Thomasville Eye Center (GA) reported to HHS on 2016-09-28 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 10,891 individuals. An employee accessed patient records on a Desktop Computer without authorization and opened a fraudulent credit account for at least one patient. The employee accessed records of 11,137 individuals during employment, exposing names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and billing information. The employee was terminated and law enforcement (local and FBI) was notified. Corrective actions included employee retraining and revised access-control policies.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10,891 affectedView incident

Source provenance

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Sep 28, 2016
Raw hash: bc9fc4536e26949c3bdeda58213bfa21ec95c328231b6f1cab70fca333c29b80

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,891
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notifiedOCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.