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Breach notice filed by City of Houston Medical Plan (March 2018)

Organization named: City of Houston Medical Plan 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 March 22, 2018.

Organization as reported
City of Houston Medical Plan, TX
Entity type as reported
Health Plan
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Laptop
Submission date
March 22, 2018
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13883, row:5022)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The City of Houston Medical Plan, the covered entity (CE), reported that a laptop containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 34,637 individuals, was stolen from the car of an employee. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, social security numbers, lab results, medications, and diagnoses. In response to this breach incident, the CE notified OCR, affected individuals, and the media. Additionally, the CE updated its policies regarding the retention of records, sanctioned the workforce member involved, and improved technical safeguards to prevent similar incidents.

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

Figures, per source

  • 34,637 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date March 22, 2018, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13883)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • City of Houston Medical Plan Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

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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