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 April 3, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- Michigan Department of Community Health, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- April 3, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15123, row:6262)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The State Long Term Care Ombudsman’s Office of the Michigan Department of Community Health, the covered entity (CE), reported than an employee’s car was burglarized and a laptop, flash drive, and documents containing protected health information (PHI) was stolen. This breach affected approximately 2,595 individuals and the PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and local law enforcement. Substitute notice was also undertaken. To mitigate this breach the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards and trained its staff on privacy protections. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions discussed above. Of note, the documents were recovered.