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. 20, 2010.
- Organization as reported
- Eastmoreland Surgical Clinic, William Graham, DO, OR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Laptop, Other, Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Aug. 20, 2010
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15990, row:7129)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Three desktop computers, one laptop computer, and a backup drive, containing the electronic protected health information (EPHI) of 4,328 individuals, were stolen on July 5, 2010. The EPHI involved in the breach included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, reason for visits, and insurance information. Following the breach, the covered entity implemented backup and whole disk encryption on electronic information systems that maintain EPHI and improved their physical safeguards. Additionally, OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity improving their administrative safeguards, such as password complexity requirements and data backup protocols. \