East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates

East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates (EBPMA) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-07-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,494 individuals. Breached information was located on a personal employee laptop. Berkeley Police Department contacted EBPMA with a listing of its patients found on the employee's personal laptop. PHI involved included names and dates of birth. EBPMA notified media, sent individual notices, and offered credit monitoring. OCR required staff PHI safeguarding training. EBPMA subsequently became part of UCSF Benioff Children's Physicians.

East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates notified patients that an employee's personal laptop, containing a list of patient names and dates of birth created in 2012, was identified by the Berkeley Police Department during an unrelated investigation on June 2, 2015. The data was permanently deleted from the laptop. No SSNs, financial, or medical information were involved. The organization retrained employees and offered one year of identity theft protection.