Healthcare Provider · Archived
Apria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach
11,000 individuals · submitted August 15, 2012
About this report
On August 13, 2012, the covered entity (CE), Apria Healthcare, Inc., reported that an unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from a workforce member’s locked vehicle. The laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 65,700 individuals. The PHI involved in the breach included names, addresses, birth dates, social security numbers, and isolated instances of driver’s licenses, financial and medical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals and the media. The CE sanctioned the workforce member, encrypted all laptop and desktop computers, and retrained workforce members. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Apria Healthcare, Inc., Privacy Manager Breach
- State
- CA
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 11,000
- Submission date
- August 15, 2012
- Breach type
- Theft
- Location of information
- Laptop
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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