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 Dec. 5, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Truman Medical Center, Incorporated, MO
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Dec. 5, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13105, row:4244)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Truman Medical Center, Inc., the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee’s vehicle was burglarized and a laptop was stolen. This breach affected approximately 112,227 individuals and the protected health information (PHI) involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, diagnoses/conditions, and medication information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and local law enforcement. The CE also provided affected individuals with complimentary identity theft protection services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.