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. 22, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital- Orange County, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Nov. 22, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15256, row:6395)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County, misplaced a portable computer drive containing the protected health information (PHI) of 49,000 individuals. The types of PHI involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, and medications. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach the CE began phasing out the use of flash drives or similar devices and initiated a plan to replace computers, and store PHI on secured servers behind the CE’s firewall. OCR provided technical assistance on conducting a security risk analysis, and as a result of its investigation OCR informed the CE that it is required to conduct an enterprise-wide security risk analysis.