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 June 20, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- NYU Hospitals Center, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- June 20, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15059, row:6198)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
NYU Hospitals Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee’s unencrypted laptop computer containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 872 individuals, was stolen. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, clinical information, and medications prescribed. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its ePHI.