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. 19, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- North Texas Comprehensive Spine & Pain Center, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss, Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Aug. 19, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15342, row:6481)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On August 19, 2013, the covered entity (CE), North Texas Comprehensive Spine & Pain Center, reported a breach when an employee’s car was broken into and an external hard drive was stolen. The hard drive contained the demographic and clinical information of 3,200 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The employee was authorized to take protected health information (PHI) home as part of her job duties. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the involved employee, encrypted its hard drives, and changed its policies to prohibit employees from remotely accessing PHI. OCR verified the corrective action taken by the CE.