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 April 16, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- American Sleep Medicine, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- April 16, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14820, row:5959)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), American Sleep Medicine of San Diego, California reported a breach of 1,787 individuals’ electronic protected health information (ePHI), as a result of a stolen backup computer hard drive. The hard drive contained names, birthdates, medical histories, physicians' names, and study results. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE improved physical safeguards, conducted a new security analysis, revised policies and procedures, and trained its workforce. As a result of OCR’s investigation OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.