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 Nov. 1, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Evergreen Psychological Services, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- Nov. 1, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13147, row:4286)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Evergreen Psychological Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that its office was burglarized and several computers were stolen. The computers contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,174 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, clinical information, and financial data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to prevent similar breach incidents. Additionally, the CE provided training to its workforce members. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the aforementioned corrective actions.