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 June 25, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- June 25, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13774, row:4913)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), University of Michigan-Michigan Medicine, reported that a laptop was stolen out of an employee’s vehicle. This breach affected 871 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Substitute notice was posted on its website. The CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to further protect its PHI. Everyone was retrained on the proper methods for securing sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.