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. 11, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- West Sound Treatment Center, WA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Oct. 11, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13662, row:4801)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On June 26, 2018, a case manager’s laptop computer and housing participant rent information was stolen from her parked vehicle. The computer did not contain electronic protected health information (ePHI), but potentially provided access to the covered entity's (CE’s) electronic medical records which contained approximately 2,531 individuals’ ePHI. The ePHI potentially affected by the breach included names, social security numbers, addresses, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results and medications. In response to the breach incident, the CE sanctioned its workforce member. Following OCR’s investigation, the CE provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media, updated its policies and procedures, and retrained its workforce.