CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Serendipity Hearing Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 6, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

3,100

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Serendipity Hearing Inc. →

Serendipity Hearing Inc. reported to HHS on 2021-05-06 a Theft affecting 3100 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer. Multiple computers and hard drives containing ePHI (names, addresses, DOB, insurance info, lab results) were stolen during a burglary. CE provided credit monitoring and implemented additional safeguards.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

May 6, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,100 affectedView incident

Name: Serendipity Hearing Inc.
norm: serendipity hearing
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Serendipity Hearing Inc.
norm: serendipity hearing
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,100nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional physical and technical safeguards to better protected its ePHI
Changes made: Implemented additional physical and technical safeguards to better protected its ePHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: May 6, 2021
Raw hash: 88fc4a6b083b0adcee7e60bfa9479b5709d4dd59367a2c5b9ecd8cb0ba000be6

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Reporting entitySerendipity Hearing Inc.

Victim entitySerendipity Hearing Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing