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 Oct. 10, 2014.
- Organization as reported
- NYU Urology Associates, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Oct. 10, 2014
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14959, row:6098)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
NYU School of Medicine, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee inadvertently mailed a patient an unencrypted CD containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 834 individuals. The ePHI involved included names and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards and retrained its staff.