- State
- CA
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 11,000
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- 9/23/2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- 9/23/2026
OCR description
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.
Change history
- 9/23/2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
Records are reproduced as published; entity names and figures are OCR's.