NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

New York State Office of Mental Health

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 10, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

563

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for New York State Office of Mental Health →2 incidents on file

New York State Office of Mental Health (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-04-10 a Loss affecting 563 individuals. A workforce member lost an unencrypted (password-protected) laptop in a New York City taxicab. The device contained PHI of research participants at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, including names, phone numbers, ages/birthdates, and coded diagnostic/assessment data. No business associate was involved. The CE notified HHS, media, and affected individuals, offered identity protection services, and implemented encryption, network access controls, and policy reforms. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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 10, 2015

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.Confirmed563 affectedView incident

Name: New York State Office of Mental Health
norm: new york state office of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: New York State Office of Mental Health
norm: new york state office of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 563nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCR of the breachOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actionsOCR stated expectation that CE conduct a risk analysis, implement a remediation plan, and ensure implementation of policies and procedures relating to asset and inventory management, access and audit controls, secure storage, data loss prevention and secure configuration controls

During the incident: Notified HHS, the media, and affected individuals
Offered one year of identity protection services at no cost to affected individuals
Replaced all devices found to be out of compliance with current encryption standards
Implemented a network access control device to prevent unencrypted or external devices from accessing the NKI network
Required investigators to submit more detailed data security plans to the Institutional Review Board
Restricted NKI researchers from downloading data from a specific research database without prior manager approval
Sanctioned the workforce member involved in the breach
Changes made: Device encryption compliance across all devices
Network access control deployment blocking unencrypted/external devices
Enhanced IRB data security plan requirements
Access controls on research database downloads
Risk analysis and corresponding remediation plan
Policies and procedures for asset/inventory management, access and audit controls, secure storage, data loss prevention, and secure configuration 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: Apr 10, 2015
Raw hash: 1c842341286a8f7520cd9b080c670ada4cdbe6f13a788e4866c4e286a0ce8efd

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Reporting entityNew York State Office of Mental Health

Victim entityNew York State Office of Mental Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, the media, and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing