HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Dec. 26, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Gibson General Hospital, IN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Dec. 26, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15504, row:6643)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A laptop computer containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 28,893 individuals was stolen from the home of one of the covered entity’s (CE) employee’s during a burglary. The ePHI included names, addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, medical record numbers, plan beneficiary numbers, and clinical information. The CE, Gibson General Hospital, provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, as well as substitute notice. Following the breach, the CE offered one year of free credit monitoring services to affected individuals. The CE also improved safeguards by encrypting all its laptop computers. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE implemented new security policies and procedures related to safeguarding ePHI.