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 Feb. 10, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Capital Prosthetic and Orthotic Center, Inc., OH
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Feb. 10, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14274, row:5413)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Capital Prosthetic and Orthotic Center, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported the theft of protected health information (PHI) from its storage company’s facility, Brandywine Lock-n-Stock. The breach affected 1,134 individuals’ PHI and included names, addresses, birthdates, phone numbers, social security numbers, medical diagnosis/treatments and insurance Information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and provided free credit monitoring. Following the breach, the CE conducted an investigation, terminated the relationship with the storage company and moved all of its paper records to a new business associate (BA), with which it established a HIPAA BA agreement. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.