Healthcare Provider · Archived
North Texas Comprehensive Spine & Pain Center
3,200 individuals · submitted August 19, 2013
About this report
On August 19, 2013, the covered entity (CE), North Texas Comprehensive Spine & Pain Center, reported a breach when an employee’s car was broken into and an external hard drive was stolen. The hard drive contained the demographic and clinical information of 3,200 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The employee was authorized to take protected health information (PHI) home as part of her job duties. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the involved employee, encrypted its hard drives, and changed its policies to prohibit employees from remotely accessing PHI. OCR verified the corrective action taken by the CE.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- North Texas Comprehensive Spine & Pain Center
- State
- TX
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 3,200
- Submission date
- August 19, 2013
- Breach type
- Loss, Theft
- Location of information
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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