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. 24, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- The Affiliated Sante Group, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Oct. 24, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13158, row:4297)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), The Affiliated Sante Group, reported that an employee’s laptop was stolen affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 679 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, member ID numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and local law enforcement. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards of retrained its staff on the requirements of protecting patient privacy.