Athletes' Performance Los Angeles, LLC

On June 2, 2016, the covered entity (CE), Athlete’s Performance Los Angeles, LLC, discovered that its facility in Carson, California lost a password protected laptop computer. The laptop's unencrypted hard drive contained electronic protected health information (ePHI) for 854 individuals including names, contact information, payment data, health information, and insurance information. The CE provided breach notification HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the covered entity encrypted hard drives on laptops that are issued to its workforce members and implemented email and attachment encryption, authentication and email data loss capabilities, as well as email tracking/revocation capabilities. The CE instituted backup and e-discovery capabilities and established a business associate relationship for these services and contracted with a third party to provide web based security and privacy awareness training platform and programming. The CE also implemented HIPAA security & privacy policies and procedures. The CE also provided OCR with additional documentation including its HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices Policy, as relevant to this breach investigation. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.