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 Aug. 3, 2010.
- Organization as reported
- Wright State Physicians, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Other
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- Aug. 3, 2010
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 16004, row:7143)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On June 11, 2010, a laptop computer containing PHI was mistakenly discarded in the trash. The laptop computer contained the protected health information of approximately 1,309 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included patient full names or first initial and last name, dates of service, and in some cases, a brief description of medical condition or care. Following the breach, the covered entity submitted evidence of its progress in implementing encryption on its laptop computers in its various departments. \