- State
- NY
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 872
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Theft
- Location of breached information
- Laptop
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
NYU Hospitals Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee’s unencrypted laptop computer containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 872 individuals, was stolen. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, clinical information, and medications prescribed. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its ePHI.
Change history
- Sep 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
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