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Breach notice filed by St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare (April 2010)

Organization named: St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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 April 23, 2010.

Organization as reported
St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare, CA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Desktop Computer
Submission date
April 23, 2010
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 16066, row:7205)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

22 computers were stolen from Clinical Management Service office.Five of the stolen computers contained the protected health information of approximately 22,012 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included name, date of birth, social security number, referral number, encounter number, facility, member ID, diagnosis, procedure, and/or diagnosis code. As a result of this incident, St. Joseph notified the potentially affected individuals, notified the local media, installed security cameras, re-trained employees, and installed encryption software on all laptops and Computers enterprise-wide. OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity improving their physical and technological safeguards and retraining employees. \

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 22,012 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date April 23, 2010, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 16066)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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