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 Sept. 15, 2011.
- Organization as reported
- Diversified Resources, Inc., GA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Sept. 15, 2011
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15782, row:6921)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On August 11, 2011, a password protected, but unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from a nurse’s car. The laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 863 individuals. The ePHI on the laptop included names, addresses, phone numbers, primary care physicians, caregiver contacts, and social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, CE reviewed its policies and procedures, applied employee sanctions, retrained its workforce, and implemented file-level encryption. Pursuant to technical assistance provided by OCR, CE implemented additional administrative safeguards, including a new policy prohibiting employees from leaving laptops unattended in a vehicle.