FLPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Tower Imaging, LLC
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Full breach record for Tower Imaging, LLC →Tower Imaging, LLC (FL) reported to HHS on 2019-04-16 the theft of an unencrypted laptop from its medical facility, discovered on February 19, 2019. The laptop, which was not recovered, contained PHI for 810 patients including names, dates of birth, and medical record numbers. In response, the CE retrained staff, updated policies, reviewed facility security codes, performed a risk analysis, adopted a risk management plan, purchased an encrypted replacement laptop, and locked it to a rolling cart. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed810 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 16, 2019
- Raw hash
- a334e1f252b4f4318affbaa76cd13afe3533180db92ae49bba82de9225fea1f8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Tower Imaging, LLCnorm: tower imaging
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Tower Imaging, LLCnorm: tower imaging
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 19, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 810
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Feb 19, 2019→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.