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 March 25, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Lane Community College Health Clinic, OR
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- March 25, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14231, row:5370)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On March 25, 2017, the covered entity (CE) reported that on February 2, 2017, a laptop computer was found to be infected with a virus known to transmit information to a third party on the internet. The breach potentially affected approximately 2,516 individuals and the types of protected health information (PHI) involved in the breach included patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, as well as posting notification on its website and providing free credit monitoring upon request. The CE revised its policies and procedures specific to the allegations of the breach. OCR provided substantial technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.