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Breach notice filed by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital (August 2011)

Organization named: Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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 Aug. 3, 2011.

Organization as reported
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital, MA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Other Portable Electronic Device
Submission date
Aug. 3, 2011
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15803, row:6942)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

A covered entity's (CE) workforce member lost an external hard drive containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 638 individuals while traveling. The external hard drive included names, medical record numbers, dates of admission, medications, diagnoses, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, the media, and all individuals affected regarding the breach and provided individuals with identity protection services. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the workforce member involved and retrained the workforce member and division staff on safeguards for ePHI. In addition, the CE established a mitigation workgroup to review policies and procedures regarding the protection of ePHI and created a new external hard drive encryption policy. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective action listed above.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 638 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Aug. 3, 2011, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 15803)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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