HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of May 21, 2010.
- Organization as reported
- Omaha Construction Industry , Privacy Manager Breach, NE
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- May 21, 2010
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 16050, row:7189)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Omaha Construction Industry Health and Welfare Plan, reported that its business associate (BA) suffered a theft of an unencrypted laptop computer that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 800 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In their mitigation efforts, both the CE and the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI.