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 July 23, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- NYU School of Medicine Faculty Group Practice, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer
- Submission date
- July 23, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15596, row:6735)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), NYU School of Medicine - Faculty Group Practice, reported that an employee’s unencrypted desktop computer containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,488 individuals, was stolen. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers, clinical information, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE inventoried all desktop computers, mapped and removed data from vulnerable computers, and retrained its staff. Additional administrative safeguards were implemented to better protect its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.