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Breach notice filed by WESTMED Medical Group (October 2010)

Organization named: WESTMED Medical Group Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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. 5, 2010.

Organization as reported
WESTMED Medical Group, NY
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Laptop
Submission date
Oct. 5, 2010
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15960, row:7099)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

An unencrypted laptop computer that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 578 individuals was stolen from the covered entity (CE), WestMed Medical Group. The ePHI included names, dates of birth and test results. Upon discovery of the breach, the CE filed a police report and provided breach notification to affected individuals, HHS and the media. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE improved physical security by locking all laptops during the day and storing all laptops in a locked cabinet overnight. In addition, the CE reconfigured all laptops with strong passwords and implemented a new procedure to save data to a secure file server. Further, the CE encrypted all laptop hard drives. The CE also retrained staff on safeguarding ePHI. \ \

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 578 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Oct. 5, 2010, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 15960)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • WESTMED Medical Group Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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