Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona Data Breach (2013)

A burglar swiped a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive medical and personal data for hundreds of mental health patients from Yuma and across the state. Alicia Z. Aguirre is the general counsel for Yuma's Arizona Counseling and Treatment Services, a contracted provider with Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona. It was one of her employees who was the victim of the burglary last month. “Sometime between March the 18th and the 25th, someone broke into an employee's home and stole a work laptop and external hard drive,” among other belongings, she said. The employee immediately filed a police report upon realizing there had been a break-in and continued to look for the laptop and drive, hoping they'd just been misplaced. But they didn't turn up.