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. 15, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Kennedy University Hospital, Inc. t/a Jefferson Health, NJ
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Aug. 15, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10517, row:1656)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Kennedy University Hospital t/a Jefferson Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee lost an external hard drive for a medical imaging device. The device contained the protected health information (PHI) of 4,140 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, medical record numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data.