HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Nov. 15, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- UHS-Pruitt Corporation, GA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Nov. 15, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15261, row:6400)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A manager's unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from a hotel parking lot which also included the employee's login and system password and the covered entity's (CE) long term care software application. The laptop contained 1,300 individuals' protected health information (PHI) and included names, social security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, bank account numbers, Medicare numbers, possible diagnoses, and patient locations. Following the breach, the CE changed the employee's password and performed an analysis to ensure no attempts had been made to access the system and long term care application using the prior account and password. The CE improved safeguards by encrypting electronic devices and employing devices that do not allow local storage. The CE has also re-trained employees. OCR has consolidated this review into a compliance review that involves the same corporate entity and another stolen unencrypted laptop. \ \ \