CONNECTICUTPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)High

Hartford Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 5, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

93,500

Confidence

50%

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A workforce member of a business associate for Hartford Hospital lost an unencrypted, portable hard drive containing the records of 93,500 patients. The lost data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical record numbers. The hospital offered identity protection services and implemented new technical safeguards like disabling USB ports and increasing data encryption.

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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

Apr 5, 2011

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed93,500 affectedView incident

Name: Hartford Hospital
norm: hartford hospital
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Hartford Hospital
norm: hartford hospital
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 93,500nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

During the incident: Sanctioned the workforce member involved
Provided breach notification to the media, HHS, and all affected individuals
Disabled the ability to download ePHI via USB ports
Began implementing malicious software prevention utilities
Began implementing data encryption controls
Changes made: Offered affected individuals 2 years of free identity protection services
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: Apr 5, 2011
Raw hash: e6cc13e79c814b14ed77fec22281b9223b1968a7e8add64a75d47fa8f9c14a36

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Reporting entityHartford Hospital

Victim entityHartford Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the workforce member involved

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing