CONNECTICUTPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Southwest Community Health Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 7, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

6,000

Confidence

97%

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Southwest Community Health Center (CT) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-06-07 a Theft incident affecting 6,000 individuals (later revised to 13,481 after data mining). Thieves broke into two facilities and stole desktop computers and laptops containing unsecured ePHI — including demographic, financial, and clinical information — cached to local hard drives. The CE notified HHS, 7,965 individuals by letter, and 5,516 by substitute notice. Corrective actions included improved physical security, encrypting all workstations/laptops, and ending local ePHI caching. OCR obtained assurances of compliance.

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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

Jun 7, 2017

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.Confirmed6,000 affectedView incident

Name: Southwest Community Health Center
norm: southwest community health center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Southwest Community Health Center
norm: southwest community health center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Desktop computerLaptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted 2017-06-07OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

During the incident: Improved physical security at two facilities
Revised policies related to ePHI storage on local hard drives
Ended caching of ePHI to local hard drives
Encrypted all workstations and laptop computers
Implemented several other enhancements to information systems environment
Breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals (7,965 by individual letter and 5,516 by substitute notice), and the media
Changes made: Encryption of all workstations and laptops
Policy revisions prohibiting local caching of ePHI
Enhanced physical security controls
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: Jun 7, 2017
Raw hash: 83964a272abe9c8f731fb10c94dea3834e32aa57b2b9af52142f9c40d96cb3cd

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Reporting entitySouthwest Community Health Center

Victim entitySouthwest Community Health Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImproved physical security at two facilities

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing