NORTH CAROLINAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

North Carolina Baptist Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 3, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

554

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for North Carolina Baptist Hospital →

North Carolina Baptist Hospital reported to HHS on 2010-03-03 a Theft affecting 554 individuals. An employee's car was broken into and a tote bag containing a paper spreadsheet with PHI was stolen. The spreadsheet included patients' names, ages, weight, race, social security numbers, and blood and tissue typing. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. The CE offered credit monitoring, revised its spreadsheet policy, counseled the employee, and implemented physical and procedural security improvements following an OCR investigation.

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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

Mar 3, 2010

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.Confirmed554 affectedView incident

Name: North Carolina Baptist Hospital
norm: north carolina baptist hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: North Carolina Baptist Hospital
norm: north carolina baptist hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 554nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; OCR required additional remedial actions including secure electronic access to clinic spreadsheet, installation of parking dock cameras, and employee vehicle inspections.

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Offered one year of credit monitoring services and a toll-free contact number to affected individuals
Reviewed applicable policies and procedures with the responsible clinic
Revised the spreadsheet to remove patients' social security numbers
Counseled and warned the involved employee about PHI safeguarding requirements
CEO emailed all employees to re-educate about PHI safeguarding obligations
Provided an alternate, secure way to electronically access the clinic spreadsheet
Installed video cameras in the parking dock
Externally inspected employee vehicles to ensure no PHI was visible
Established a Privacy and Information Security Council
Changes made: Removed SSNs from the spreadsheet
Deployed secure electronic access to replace paper-based workflow
Installed parking dock surveillance cameras
Created a Privacy and Information Security Council to strengthen policies
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: Mar 3, 2010
Raw hash: 73a38f615fd017a60bcd4989d2a5077d098ccd6eea1a78eecece3b21a699f8ae

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Reporting entityNorth Carolina Baptist Hospital

Victim entityNorth Carolina Baptist Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing