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. 4, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- Schuylkill Health System LVHN, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Oct. 4, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15304, row:6443)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Schuylkill Health System, LVHN, the covered entity, reported the theft of a password-protected unencrypted laptop disclosing the PHI of 2,810 individuals. The patient information disclosed included names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, insurance information, patient data, and treatment information. The covered entity retrained the employee on information security practices. During the course of the investigation, the covered entity merged with a larger entity.