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 June 26, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- CVS Health, RI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- June 26, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14767, row:5906)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
CVS Health Store 3976, the covered entity (CE), was looted and burned during rioting activity that occurred in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and some computers containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) were stolen. 12,914 individuals were affected by the incident. The specific type of PHI on the stolen computers included patients’ first and last names, partial dates of birth, addresses, medication names, medication dosage, and prescription number. CVS Health provided OCR with assurances that individuals affected by this breach and the media were notified in accordance with the Breach Notification Rule. All individuals affected by the breach were given 1 year of free credit monitoring by the CE.