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Breach notice filed by Northside Hospital, Inc. (December 2013)

Organization named: Northside Hospital, Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Loss

What the sources say

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 Dec. 10, 2013.

Organization as reported
Northside Hospital, Inc., GA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Loss
Location of information as reported
Laptop
Submission date
Dec. 10, 2013
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15240, row:6379)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

A password-protected, unencrypted laptop was lost or stolen when a Northside Hospital (NSH) workforce member inadvertently left it on the hood of her car while parked. The laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,879 individuals. The ePHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, account numbers, billing dates, diagnoses and/or diagnosis codes, and lab results. The covered entity (CE), NSH, provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and provided substitute notification. Following the breach, the CE encrypted all its ePHI. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE also revised its HIPAA policies reguarding mobile devices and breach notification, and implemented other safeguards.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 4,879 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Dec. 10, 2013, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 15240)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Northside Hospital, Inc. Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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