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 Jan. 29, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Riverside County Regional Medical Center, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Jan. 29, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14891, row:6030)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Riverside County Regional Medical Center (RCRMC), the covered entity (CE), reported that a laptop was lost or stolen at its facility on or around December 1, 2014. The breach affected 7,925 individuals. The types of electronic protected health information (ePHI) involved included names, social security numbers, and clinical information. The CE reported the incident to local law enforcement and notified all affected individuals and the media. As a result of this incident, the CE encrypted all laptops and reconfigured web-cache settings. In response to OCR’s guidance, RCRMC took additional steps to address gaps in its security management program to further safeguard ePHI and provided documentation of these corrective steps to OCR.