Thomasville Eye Center Data Breach (2016)

A former employee of the Thomasville Eye Center in Thomasville, GA has been discovered to have accessed the protected health information of patients without authorization. PHI was stolen from the eye center and used to open credit accounts in the names of the patients. The eye center was alerted to the identity theft on August 8, 2016 and immediately launched an investigation to determine whether this was an isolated incident or if other patients had potentially been affected. The eye center discovered that the records of 10,891 patients had been accessed by the employee. The information contained in those records included names, addresses, birthdates, medical billing information, and Social Security numbers.