DisclosureLens
CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)High

Murali Menon, Privacy Manager Breach

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 30, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

2,855

Confidence

50%

On November 4, 2014, an employee’s password-protected laptop and external hard drive were stolen from a locked vehicle. The devices contained the protected health information of 2,855 individuals, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial data, and clinical information. The covered entity, Murali Menon and Physicians Skin and Weight Centers, notified HHS on December 30, 2014. In response, the entity discontinued the use of external hard drives, encrypted all laptops, revised security policies, and retrained staff. Affected individuals were offered one year of free credit monitoring.

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

Nov 4, 2014

Begins

Dec 30, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,855 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.