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. 9, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Fire Department City of New York, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Aug. 9, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13278, row:4417)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Fire Department, City of New York, the covered entity (CE), reported than an employee’s personal external hard drive containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 10,292 individuals, was missing from its office. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, addresses, drivers’ license information, Social Security numbers, clinical information, medications prescribed, treatment information, claims data, health insurance information, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the responsible individual was sanctioned and the staff was retrained. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.