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 Jan. 18, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- WAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Jan. 18, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15485, row:6624)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Wayne Memorial Hospital, lost an unencrypted compact disk (CD) containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 1182 individuals in the U.S. mail. The types of ePHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, account balances and Medicare numbers (which contain social security numbers). The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE attempted to locate the CD. The CE also encrypted a CD that contains similar data, to be used for the same purpose. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE retrained employees and evaluated ePHI maintained on computers in its most recent risk analysis.