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PENNSYLVANIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Penn Medicine

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 2, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,050

Confidence

96%

Penn Medicine reported to HHS on 2018-01-02 a Theft affecting 1,050 individuals. An unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, claims information, and treatment information. The CE implemented additional administrative and security safeguards and retrained staff on patient privacy and safeguarding PHI. Breached information located on Laptop.

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

Jan 2, 2018

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.Confirmed1,050 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.