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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%
Full breach record for Hartford Hospital →

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.

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

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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.Confirmed93,500 affectedView incident

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.